New Age is Business as Usual in Business

Years ago I read a fascinating article in my Los Angeles Times newspaper about how business leaders were asking the top Business Schools like Stanford, Wharton, etc. to stop producing left-brained number cruncher MBA's and start producing more right-brained creative types. The end of the article told how New Age-type courses were beginning to be offered in these business schools. Yes, the New Agers found a niche to get into. And how is this affecting business now that these "creative types" have emerged? According to the Lighthouse Trails blog, New Age is business as usual in the business world today. Here is what they report,


What's fascinating to me is that when I met recently with some of the old-timers in the movement, I discovered that all of us had expanded from working in growth centers to working in American business. What the business community needs, wants, and appreciates at this time are insights from the human potential movement.... I'm finding executives who, twenty years ago, considered the human potential movement a kind of joke and who are now recruiting specialists into the most conservative industries.

____Interview with New Ager James Fadiman--1988



International Management magazine revealed that many of the major European corporations are also eagerly embracing New Age spirituality. Included in the list were the Bank of England and the UK's Ministry of Defense and Cabinet Office.


_______________"Disciples of the New Age," in International Management Magazine -1991




It's sad that the mostly left-brained analytical church squandered an opportunity to bring wholesome, but secular (of course--no religion allowed in most colleges), programs into these schools. I am hearing of Christians trying to do this now, but I'm wondering if it really is affecting business at large as much as the New Age has. Anyone know?


Source: http://lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/index.php?p=1446&more=1&c=1