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Virtue, contrary to what most people think, is not some- thing you wear outside of yourself for public display, as the following story demonstrates. The Whore and the Priest A Hindu priest lived across the street from a prostitute. Each day as he was going in to do his prayers and meditation, he would see men coming and going from the prostitute's room.
He would see the woman herself greeting them or bidding them farewell. Each day the priest would imagine and ponder the shameful acts that were committed in the whore's room and his heart would fill with strong disapproval of the woman's immorality.
Each day the prostitute would see the priest at his spiritual practices. She would think how beautiful it must be to be so pure, to spend one's time in prayer and meditation. My mother was a whore and my daughter will be one too, such are the ways of this land. Much to his astonishment, the priest was condemned for his wickedness. I have spent my days in prayer and meditation.
You were bom there, and it was beyond your strength to do otherwise. But while your body was performing unworthy acts, your heart was always so pure and forever fixed in contempla- tion on the purity of the holy man's prayers and meditation.
In Asian society this is especially true. While I was attending college in Taipei, I rented a room in the house of a wealthy widow, where she lived with her three sons and their families. During the time I stayed there, the widow, in her eighties, fell ill and was hospitalized. A month later, she was brought home and died. The sons arranged for an elaborate mourning ritual and burial. The body was laid out in the main room of the house. For the next week, every afternoon at three a Tao priest would arrive in his huge colorful robe to perform a ritual for the dead and the family would gather for an hour of mourning.
As soon as the priest began chanting, fifteen people would simulta- neously break out in loud, forlorn wailing. Each lamentation grew louder and more disconsolate than the last until the bellowing was quite unbelievable. Then, precisely at four o'clock, it ceased and everyone went about their business until the following day at the same time. As the week wore on, the eyes grew drier even though the wailing remained just as loud.
It was important to demonstrate the depth of bereavement not only to the other members of the family, but the sound of grief had to carry all the way to the neighbors' houses. My room was directly above the room where the body was laid out. I was completely exhausted just listening to the daily mourning.
The participants were also absolutely drained. It was with unmistakable relief that they finally buried the old woman. It was not a tragic or unexpected death. The woman had lived a long and very comfortable life. Her death had come peacefully after a brief illness.
There was no cause to feel sorry for her at all. In a land where one does not have to walk far to encounter truly tragic and pathetic lives, her life was a cause for celebration. The mourning was entirely for the benefit of the survivors and the neighbors. Virtue is a delicate substance. No one can judge or measure your virtue, not even yourself. When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority.
When you are truly aligned with virtue, a harmony pervades. Overcoming Fear Fear is the most destructive of emotions.
Fear is to a man's soul as a drop of poison is to a well of spring water. Deep down in our subconscious we are wise enough to recognize the fragility of how this universe was put together; that our existence and survival hangs on the invisible threads of God's grace. In our conscious awareness, fear is a vague but constantly nagging uneasiness.
Most people do not even know that they are afraid most of the time. Once there was a reporter who during an interview asked a well-known national news anchorman, "What are you afraid of? He would have to truly expose himself if he were to deal with it honestly. He quickly addressed the question by giving superficial answers: "I am afraid of natural events such as earthquakes and floods.
The anchorman could not tell the truth for fear of what his audience would think. He was in the public eye and was protecting his public image. It was obvious that one of his biggest fears was to answer this question. But it was not his fault that he felt the need to lie by omission.
In general it is unacceptable in our society to admit your fears in a formal or business environment. Wherever we turn, we are face to face with different aspects of fear. It is the biggest barrier for us to overcome in order to experience and fulfill our true potential.
If you intend to practice Thick Face, Black Heart it is vitally important that you take a good look at how and when fear manifests itself in your life. Although the experience of fear is universal, it assumes different forms for each individual. I grew up in a family where fear was the regular staple served during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My parents grew up under the domination of the Japanese Imperial Army in Manchuria.
Fear was the main element the Japanese utilized to control the Chinese citizens. In addition, as large land- holders, they had to cope with the threat of the new Commu- nist policy to eradicate "evil" landlords from the face of the earth.
Forced to leave China, my parents' fears were worsened by the hopelessness of living as refugees in Taiwan with three young children to care for. Fear was a permanent resident in our household. The air was so thick with fear that even when we were not afraid, we were afraid. I remember a couple of years ago, while I was lying in bed, out of nowhere a tremendous feeling of fear hit me. I had never before experienced such potency of feeling.
Though I could think of no reason to be fearful, I was so afraid that I got sick to my stomach. Suddenly, I realized, the fear I felt was the fear from my parents—fear of the unpredictability of the fragile, material world in which they had lived.
I had swallowed their fear just by being in their environment and in that moment, had recreated it in its full intensity. All my life, I have watched how fear works. I contemplate the mystery within the fear. Not long ago, I was in a shopping mall at closing time. I saw a young store clerk, looking terribly frustrated. She was kneeling near a rolldown steel door, with sweat showing through her thin blouse.
I asked her what was wrong and if she needed any help. She told me she had been trying to lock the door for the past half hour but she couldn't. She said that until the door was locked, she couldn't go home. After I looked at the steel door, it was clear that the position of the lever at the bottom had moved past the slot on the side of the door frame.
However, she would not allow me to lift the steel door even slightly, for fear the alarm would go off She told me that once the door was down, if it was lifted, the alarm would be triggered. This young woman's attention was focused solely on the fear of the alarm going off I finally convinced her to lift the door just a bit higher to find the slot. Instead of controlling her fear, the sales girl had allowed it to dominate her actions to the point where she was completely inert and useless. Fear does not have to be a negative entity.
Through my life experience practicing Thick Face, Black Heart I have discov- ered that there are six elements involved in handling fear. However, if you put the hat on your feet, and the shoes on your head, then both become useless. If we understand the purpose of fear we may use the emotion of fear to benefit our life rather than empower it to hasten our self-destruction.
Fear does not have to be destructive. If we learn to respect fear and channel the emotion of fear for a higher purpose, it will benefit us. Just think: if you never experience any fear, it is probably because you are living your life too safely, beneath your capacity and avoiding challenges. Such a life can be summed up in one word—nothing. An ancient wise man once said, "I would rather have fear and worry then nothing. We do not foolishly jump into a blazing fire, or drown ourselves in the depths of the ocean.
We do not jump out of an airplane without proper training and equipment. Due to the grace of fear, a mother will tenderly watch and protect her child from harm. During the course of my work, a FBI agent contacted me to ask for my assistance.
He told me these people came to the United States and secretly contacted their people here. I told him that all the people I had come across were who they said they were. Even during my visits to China they were still working at the same posts. Furthermore, what he was asking might give the Chinese government cause to imprison me and I had no desire to spend my retirement in a Chinese jail.
I was not afraid to be honest about, nor was I ashamed of my great fear of Chinese jails where human rights are given no consideration at all. As a matter of fact, he was rather relieved at my unwilling- ness to cooperate.
I think one of his objectives in speaking with me was to find out whether or not I was sympathetic to the Peoples' Republic of China, above and beyond my allegiance to the United States of America.
Do not be afraid of fear. Employ Thick Face, Black Heart to shield and protect you from your illusion of harm. Our creator did not place fear in our hearts in order to destroy us, but rather to guide and protect us. Understand your fear, befriend your fear. Talk to your fear, and ask how you can utilize it for your benefit rather than your destruction. To the grace of fear, I pay respect and bow deeply.
The Eyes Of Fear The content of fear may be intense and gripping, so much so that it overwhelms us completely. But when we look beyond that content at the fear itself, what do we find? Pure energy, energy which, if we focus on it directly, will begin to reveal its real nature.
Then, instead of filling us with agitation, the energy of fear can actually lead us to a state of exhilaration, or intense concentration, or love. Fear is never so terrifying once you look into its eyes. A Thick Face, Black Heart practitioner will use his spear to pierce the eye of fear.
For no apparent reason, I had been always afraid of deep water. Whenever I was swimming in the deeper part of a pool, I felt panic and fear. Whenever I took a dive, from the moment my body touched the bottom until I came up, I felt that the time seemed unbearably long. Fifteen years ago, I took a cruise to the Caribbean. While the ship was anchored in the U.
Virgin Islands, I took a deep sea diving class. I decided to take a look at what it would really be like if I went down to the bottom of the sea. After a half hour of brief instruction, with a group of ten people and an instructor, I walked into the sea with my oxygen tank. While in the water, whenever my mind thought about being at the bottom of the sea, I felt fearful.
I would then say to myself, "I am one with the ocean, I am one with the all the creatures in the ocean. I am God's child. I have the same right as the fish to make this ocean my own. The words became thoughts and experiences. I then felt at ease with the idea of swimming at the bottom of the sea. My diving experience was the highlight of my whole trip. In fact, it was one of the highlights of my life. I knew then that I could master my fear at will; I just had to look into its eyes.
Years ago, I decided to organize and conduct a full day seminar about how to do business with Asians. The morning of the seminar while I was dressing, I was overcome by fear. Suddenly it hit me; "I had never spoken in front of any large groups. What if I opened my mouth and nothing came out? What would this do for my professional reputation? How would I get through this day? As I was driving towards the hotel, I thought to myself, "I either shape up or admit defeat.
To stop resisting it. The more I did not want to feel fearful, the more intense the fear got. I mentally took my fear from my heart, placed it in front of me on my dash board, and started to stare into this fear with great intensity. I said to myself, "Let me be more fierce then fear itself.
By the time I arrived at the hotel, I was charged with power and enthusiasm. My first seminar was a great success. After I had finished at p. My experience was not extraordinary. Often the bravest warriors were originally the greatest cowards.
The more fear you confront and conquer, the greater courage you will possess. Diversity is Fear The most profound knowledge is often only available through direct perception and experience. Words alone are never sufficient to explain such mysteries. Understanding the nature of fear and how to take control of it is of great importance in our daily life. Knowing the source of fear is the essential element; without it, your understanding of fear will not be complete.
The profound and simple truth is that the universe was created by our Divine Maker. He created the whole universe out of himself and no other substance. In reality all things and creatures are one with our Maker. Just as in the material world, all elements consist of atomic particles, yet they are manifested as infinitely different forms. Whenever we experi- ence ourselves as separate from that power of Oneness, fear enters. When I was afraid of deep water, the source of my fear was that I experienced myself as being separate from the water.
When I focused my mind and heart and concentrated on becoming one with the water and all the creations within, then I expanded to include the water and the one who created the water. I also was included within it. A friend of mine shared with me that normally, she is extremely afraid about the judgements and opinions of others.
For her, this was a source of constant anxiety. Once, after completing a spiritual retreat, for a few days, she experienced a state of complete serenity.
She was without fear. In this state of fearlessness, there was no effort needed not to be afraid. There was simply a sense of pure peace, serenity, harmony and great clarity.
A feeling of well-being in which she saw that although she was different from others, in essence she was the same.
There was no diversity. She experienced that all of creation was one with the Creator. In that oneness, you are part of the whole in each pulsating moment of time. Thought does not exist. This harmonious state is experienced by those who dedicate their lives to vigilance in practicing the highest form of Thick Face, Black Heart.
To obtain this state is within human reach, but make no mistake about it, it is only through rigorous vigilance and practice that it will manifest. The experience of diversity manifests in a way that affects our daily lives. For example, in the business world whenever a salesman sees that his own interest is the opposite of his potential customer, he is fearful. He sees that in order for him to make a dollar, the potential customer will have to dish out ten dollars.
Deep down, he knows he is a noble human being. He does not wish to have a total stranger "lose" ten dollars so he may gain one dollar. Consequently, he is afraid to approach the customer. If the salesman took a different perspective and sought unity among his customers' interests, then his fear would not exist. Would you be afraid if you knew for certain that by communicating information concerning your service or product to the potential buyer, he would benefit tremendously?
In our daily lives, whenever you can find unity among diversity, you will experience no fear. Master Detachment Performing your duty without attachment or aversion is a great antidote to the poison of fear. When you attach yourself to expectations, anxiety and fear will overcome you. Ignoring the Fear I am an old man and have a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Mark Twain clearly understood this well as he said that most of our worries and fears never come true.
Don't give your fear too much importance. An ignored guest often departs un- announced. During your daily encounters, in spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
You, as the Thick Face, Black Heart practitioner will press ahead and walk through the clouds of fear that may arise on your path to success. Voyage Beyond the Avoidance of Pain and the Pursuit of Pleasure The man who is not troubled by pain and pleasure, who remains the same, he is wise and makes himself fit for eternal life.
The most motivating factor in human actions is the desire to avoid pain and do what promises us pleasure. There may be religious individuals who would argue that this is not so with them. The aim of devotion, however, is the possible deliverance out of eternal pain into eternal pleasure— the bliss of God. If an individual can convince others that doing things his way will increase the pleasure of living and lessen the pain of life, that individual would certainly be a popular man.
Just look at political speeches given during the past hundred years. They have changed very little: "If you vote for me, your life is going to be better, you will have more money to spend, your children will have a higher standard of education to ensure their prosperous future, you will have luxurious low- cost housing, you will have a strong defense, you will have cultural programs to enrich your lives, and I promise you that there will be no increase in taxes.
Hitler understood this principle. When he came to power in , Germany was in a deep economic slump. The German people were still carrying the heavy disgrace of their defeat in World War I.
They were suffering both physically and emotionally. The promise of a better life was more attractive than their harsh and hopeless reality.
The German people opened their arms and embraced him. Hitler delivered his promise. He brought Germany out of economic depression and went on to unite the German-speak- ing world.
In he was at the top. According to some historians, if Hitler had died in , he would now be known as the greatest statesman in the history of Germany. Eva Duarte Peron of Argentina, popularly known as Evita, seemed to have acquired something akin to sainthood by the time of her death in She used only one weapon to secure the dictatorial position of her husband.
She convinced the poor masses of Argentina that she and her husband were their only hope for a better life. She used herself as an example, having been raised in the slums of Argentina. You too can rise to the top. Hitler delivered something tangible. Eva Peron delivered hope. Both convinced the masses that they had the means to lessen the pain and increase the pleasures of life. Half a century later, people have not grown wiser.
We are still eager to embrace anyone who promises to increase our pleasure and lessen our pain. We operate our whole lives out of a desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain. We are like laboratory rats who have found out which door hides the cheese. Our former president, Ronald Reagan, is a master at manipulating this simple human emotion. In order to fulfill his promise of making the American people "feel good," he had to create a false prosperity. He borrowed against America's future, turning the United States from the largest creditor nation to the largest debtor nation in eight short years.
History has proven that the blind pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain causes the human race to sabotage itself. The remedy to cure this current national character defect is Thick Face, Black Heart. Abraham Lincoln understood that the price of greatness lay beyond the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.
He fought for the very existence of the principle of democratic government and was willing to risk the devastating destruction of his beloved nation. Acquire the Courage to Believe in Yourself Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
In the world of science, Galileo and Darwin come immediately to mind. Their ideas questioned the cherished belief of man's pre-eminent place in God's Universe. They threw the dogmatic religious establishment into paroxysms of rage. I spent the first part of my life in provincial China and the subsequent years in modern America. Time and time again I have noticed how customs that seem of such fundamental and unquestioned importance in one culture reveal themselves to be trivial and arbitrary when viewed from the perspective of a different culture.
I remember an old woman who lived in our street when I was a child. We children called her Auntie Wong. Though elderly, she was a lively and energetic person. Like the other women of her age, she dressed in the old style and pulled her hair back in a neat bun, ornamenting it with a jade and silver stick pin. But unlike the other old women, Auntie Wong moved purposefully when she walked. She did not hobble slowly on tiny, broken and disfigured feet.
It was ingrained into people's thinking that these mis- shapen feet were a necessary component of female beauty. Besides being thought of as beautiful in and of themselves, bound feet caused a woman's hips to sway in what was considered a most irresistible manner. But sensuality really had nothing to do with it. A woman's hips swayed because she could not walk straight.
But Auntie Wong's mother had been a woman of enormous courage. She forbade anyone to bind her child's feet. She physically restrained the members of her outraged family from performing the ritual. For the remainder of her life, she stood as a shield between her daughter and those who would cripple her. When Auntie Wong's mother died, Auntie Wong was thirteen years old and her feet were already much too large to bind.
From the vantage point of twentieth century America it is easy to minimize the enormity of Auntie Wong's mother's courage. Foot binding is to us such an obviously barbaric and pointless practice that it seems common sense would prohibit it. However, in Auntie Wong's world, only servants and peasant women had unbound feet. It brought great shame on her family to have a daughter whose very feet proclaimed her to be coarse and without breeding. But many old customs changed in China during the early years of this century.
Foot binding fell out of favor. Auntie Wong's generation was the last to be subjected to it. Rather than spending her life as a social pariah, Auntie Wong was one of the few women of her generation to be in tune with the prevailing standards of the new China. The women who had been crippled by foot binding grew old as relics of a bygone era.
The invisible chains of customs and cultural practices are more binding than the shackles of iron. Nonetheless, as a Thick Face, Black Heart practitioner, it is essential to break free from the bondage and have the courage to be true to your convictions. They may differ regarding His specific identity and many of His attributes, but there is surprising agreement on the idea that all things happen through the will of this Creator.
One of the great mysteries of religion is why a benign and omnipotent Creator would allow suffering to come into the world. God may mark the sparrow's fall, but He neverthe- less lets him fall. The Creator's destructive force is so violent and causes so much human misery, both through the blind forces of nature and the actions of the wicked, that He seems callous and unjust. But the created Universe is huge, spanning unthinkable ranges of time and distance.
Galaxies coalesce out of clouds of dust drifting in the vast icy blackness of interstellar space. Stars ignite, planets form and life begins. Eventually it is all consumed in its own fire and returns to dust, ready for the cycle to begin again. The Creator does not modify His plan for the convenience of an infinitesimal fragment of creation, nor does He explain Himself. Creation and destruction are not opposites, as they seem.
They are two aspects of a single force. The Universe is a constant cycle of creation and destruction. Both are equally necessary. As I write this, there is a huge forest fire raging out of control in the mountains nearby. Despite the fact that scientists clearly understand the need for periodic fires to maintain a healthy forest, hundreds of men using millions of dollars worth of equipment are frantically trying to extinguish the flames.
The local timber industry cannot see beyond its need for the standing timber being lost. Animal lovers lament the loss of animal life without considering that this cataclysm is a necessary and natural part of preparing the way for the generations of wild beasts to come. Only the Creator has a face thick enough and a heart black enough to allow His grand design to unfold without concern for these matters. Often when we categorize something as wrong or bad, it is because we do not possess the breadth of vision to see its necessity in the overall scheme of things.
Thick Face, Black Heart is the natural state of your being. This state has been lost to you because of well-meaning people who drilled into you all the rules about how you ought to behave and how you ought to feel, and it is also lost to you because of an inner image you have created of yourself out of other peoples' expectations and beliefs.
You must reclaim the natural state of your true self. It is not whether or not you turn the other cheek that is important. It is why you do, or do not, that counts the most. A strong wind can uproot the oak, but no wind, however strong, can uproot the grass that bends flat before it.
The ideal practitioner of Thick Face, Black Heart is one who possesses Thick Face, Black Heart inwardly, yet whose outward appearance can be dominating or submissive as the situation demands. The failure of those who attempt extraordinary accom- plishments is much more public and generally accom- panied by sighs of satisfaction from ordinary failures. All independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disap- proval ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage.
To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right. We want it to fit into our concept of "perfec- tion. Our false concept of virtue often is nothing but vanity and an attempt to gain praise or to be self-righteous about how "virtuous" we are, so we may feel superior to others. Often, because this false virtue is accompa- nied by a dose of human ignorance, virtue becomes an effective weapon in making humanity a victim.
If we under- stand the purpose of fear we may use the emotion of fear to benefit our life rather than empower it to hasten our self-destruction. Just as in the material world, all elements consist of atomic particles, yet they manifest them- selves in infinitely different forms. Whenever we experience ourselves as separate from that power of Oneness, fear enters.
When a salesman sees his own interest is the opposite of his potential customer, he is fearful. When a salesman seeks unity with his custom- er's interests, then his fear does not exist.
An ignored guest often departs unannounced. We operate our whole lives on the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain. The price of greatness lies beyond the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. Destruction is an essential part of Creation. Only the Creator has a face thick enough and a heart black enough to allow His grand design to ruthlessly unfold.
The Universe is run according to immutable principles that are far greater than our small concerns. It has been confirmed by leading Western linguists that Sanskrit is the root of virtually all known languages and according to Hindu mythol- ogy, is the language spoken by the gods.
Dharma is the understanding of appropriate action for any given circumstance. It means "to act in accordance with one's duty. For example, a warrior's Dharma is to slay the enemies of his nation. A physician's Dharma is to save lives, even the lives of his enemies.
These two actions, although completely different, are both correct. If Dharma is followed, the world will be in harmony with the natural law. Dharma is the foundation of Thick Face, Black Heart. In order to successfully become a righteous Thick Face, Black Heart practitioner, the awareness of Dharma must be constant- ly in one's consciousness. Otherwise, as mentioned in Chapter I, you will become an unconscionable Thick Face, Black Heart practitioner who is willing to win at all costs but without any regard for the consequences to other people.
Only by main- taining this awareness of Dharma will we begin to gain insight into what is required for proper discrimination in thought and in action. Dharma, Your Protector and Liberator People who practice Dharma accept life as it comes and perform their duty accordingly. Dharma is a natural law which guides us to recognize at any given moment the role each one of us is playing in life.
Being true to the duty of that particular role at any given time and the very act of accepting and performing that action to the best of our ability—that is following Dharma.
That act will become our protector and savior. The following Hindu story demonstrates the practicality of this concept. They started swimming for their lives. They swam for a long time but there seemed no hope of their getting out. The father said to the son, "I am getting tired. I am going to drown. Something will happen. Have faith. But half an hour later, the father gave up and sank to the bottom.
The son went on swimming. During this time the churning milk, whipped by his unceasing efforts to save his life, had begun to form a ball of butter that soon became solid beneath his feet. Using this island of butter as a platform, he managed to hop out of the bucket. He mourned, "If my father had just held on a little longer, he'd be with me now. Seventeen years ago, Leslie was a teenager and used to help me clean my house in exchange for piano lessons.
Five years ago, I talked with her mother, and asked how Leslie was doing as I had not seen her for many years. It was then I learned this following fantastic story. The Miracle Power of Dharma After Leslie graduated from high school, she began working as a bookkeeper for a small manufacturer. The company produced a certain unique component, and produced it better and more cheaply than anyone else.
Not only did they sell this component all over the United States, they also exported the product to other countries. After working there for about eight years, Leslie began to discover evidence which indicated that the company managers, the owner's two sons, were stealing company money from the sole owner: their mother.
Also the awareness of CSR toward customers and employees is considered low. Penn Schoen Berland , Black Ocean Strategy: Danai has suggested that instead of looking through the competition, corporate better offer a new moral attitude, an attitude of responsibility not only to employees but towards humanity and the environment. It is about time for a change.
It is the passion for corporate to balance the important of people, planet, and profit. He proposed that underneath the Blue and Red Ocean lies the pure White Ocean for sustainable business development Chanchaochai, The core discussion of Thick Black theory is how to improve effectiveness of people Zhao, rather than being cruel.
Thick Black theory is the wisdom that can be applied to any nationality, race, and occupation. It is how to protect yourself from dealing with society and in turn it is the instrument to battle with society.
Thick Black discusses how to gain power Zhao, The power of Thick Black theory is in your inner strength and the natural state of your true self, where perfect joy, clarity, courage, and compassion, are an inseparable part of you Chu, Thick Black theory discusses how to identify what is your main objective of your true self, and how to achieve your main goal without obstruction by social moral and condition Chu, It is not destiny but a series of decision making Zhao, The more practice of Thick Black theory will increase the skill, as well as improve the benefit gained by the Thick Black theory.
In the big picture, Thick Black theory discusses about the ability to conceal the actual sentiment in order to shape the attitude of opponents to the way the executer wishes for, and the ability to make the right choice devoid of apprehension to other injury Suwannakitti, Booth Thick and Black is the human weapon to deal with the social moral and condition.
Thick is a shield to protect and Black is the spear to battle Li, Thick or thick face is a shield with the ability to protect oneself from the criticism and the negative opinions of others. It is the ability to put self-doubt aside, and refusing to accept the limitations that others have tried to impose, and the ability to carry on to achieve the target or goal Chu, Black or Black Heart is a spear with the ability to do battle with others and one regard to how the consequences will affect others.
It is cruel but not necessarily evil Chu, The Black Heart person is above short sighted compassion. He focuses his attention on his goals and ignores the cost. Trust: Trust, n. It is wisdom that can influence people to do things according to organization interests.
Stephen M. He concludes that trust can build or destroy every human relationship. Trust is also considered a key factor in effective supply chain management and, while it does not lend itself easily to measurement, the value of trust can be measured in terms of lower costs, added value and the encouragement of resource sharing Landry, Anderson and Narus suggest that once trust is established, organizations learn that joint efforts will lead to outcomes that exceed what the organization would achieve had they acted solely in its own best interests.
Additionally, business alliances that exhibit trust will survive greater stress, display greater adaptability, and survive for longer periods of time. Finally, Barney and Hansen supported that business alliances characterized by strong-form trustworthiness may have a competitive advantage over other business alliances due to the potential to decrease governance and agency costs. Methodology This paper is using empirical study as a main tool which includes literature survey and industrial survey and some current statistics.
Nonetheless, there might have some limitations incurring from the industrial survey due to time and number of respondents. Black Ocean Strategy Concept: Black Ocean strategy discuss about the ability to pay the firm first before paying other which is totally opposite from White Ocean strategy.
It works directly with opportunity. The organization must know where the opportunity is and try to find the way to access to that opportunity as well as try to find the way to block other competitors to penetrate the same opportunity. Black Ocean strategy is deal directly with trust where literatures both qualitative and quantitative research revealed a significant of trust as the wisdom to influence people to do things according to organization interests.
Therefore, the motives in finding opportunities are concerned with the company as the main priority, not with impact to people nor society.
At the same time, the company will try to make the most of the opportunities as much as possible. Black Ocean Strategy the case of multi-level marketing Buddhist pilgrimage tourist operators: Buddhist pilgrimage tourist is a great opportunity business. It has the potential to attract the large Buddhist population in Thailand and from nearby Asian countries. It also creates developing local supply chains and income generating opportunities through tourism.
However, business tourist operators find an opportunity to make more money from this business. In fact, it is about landscape improvement so that Chinese tourists would want to visit more, i. In all, what this research is points out is that in order to create business opportunities, Chinese tour operators aim to rent Buddhist shrine and sanctuaries and turn them into tourist destinations that Chinese tourists have to come and worship as much as possible.
This closes the opportunity for other competitors, and from then on, the Chinese tour operators can also start selling the Buddhist amulets of the temple. The cost price of each amulet is unlikely to exceed 10 baht each, but can be priced at baht, making a profit of 50 to times. With the buying power of the huge mass of tourists who desire these amulets, this can be considered a highly successful business.
Analysis and Discussion Black Ocean Strategy is another effective tool for organization. If organization knows how to use Black Ocean Strategy, it will create a good opportunity for organisation.
Organization can enjoy large profit from monopoly existing market which is much better than uncontested market space. However, Black Ocean Strategy may not be the ethical tool for public. It may seem to be cruel and create bad effect to other people. For temple or firm that has been treated by Black Ocean strategy it is better to study the real attention of their partner.
It is better to have cautious relationship with other Nithisathian, et al. Conclusion Black Ocean strategy is another strategy that organization has been applied for long. It may be the first strategy that organization has been used. It talking about pay the organization first before paying other. It does not mean ruthless but it is how to make organization best use its resource to pay itself.
Black Ocean strategy can be both ethical and unethical activities. It is about the ability to execute all the activities to make organization success as well as the ability to manage the attitude of publicity. For example, attitude of employee toward implementing the strategy, customers toward accepting the strategy, and public audience toward appreciate the strategy.
The key activities of Black Ocean strategy are not ending up at winning the opportunity, but also how to lock the opportunity and avoid other competitors to get into organization frontier.
Since Black Ocean strategy can be both ethical and unethical. It has been suggested that firm must be caution to the activities of another firm. Since trust will lose their guard which in turn effect the performance at the end.
However, the applicability of the Black Ocean needs to be studied in several other contexts, not only in Asia but also in the West, not only service industries but also in production industries. It is likely that the manifestation of Black Ocean strategy would be influenced strongly by socio-cultural environment.
Future comparative and cross-cultural research can help to enrich the Black Ocean strategy, and shed further insights, such as comparing the likelihood and the time span of success, depending on the intensity of blackness or whiteness of this theory. Surely, there are also cases of failures in the Black Ocean strategy, given that the value behind this theory is that of immorality and evilness.
Furthermore, a longitudinal study of the Black Ocean strategy in operation might likely produce interesting findings. Given the concept of sustainability, what could be the other social and market forces that would come into play to exert influences on unconscionable business practices?
Truly, the relatively new theory of Black Ocean strategy still needs to be tested rigorously. References Aithal, P. International Journal of Management Research, 3 8 , Aithal, P. International Journal of Applied Research, 1 10 , Anderson, J. A model of distributor firm and manufacturer firm working relationships. Journal of Marketing, 54, Anti Corporate Social Resonsibility. Trustworthiness as a source of competitive advantage.
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