Quản Lý Nghiệp (Karmic Management: What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life)

*Karmic Management* (published in Vietnamese as *Quản Lý Nghiệp*) is the sequel to Geshe Michael Roach's bestselling business-Buddhism book *The Diamond Cutter*, co-written with Lama Christie McNally and Michael Gordon, the founder of the hair-care company Bumble and bumble. Where *The Diamond Cutter* told the origin story of applying ancient Buddhist principles to build a successful diamond business, *Karmic Management* is designed as a short, practical companion: a step-by-step system, described by the authors as readable in under an hour, for applying the same principles to any business or personal goal.

The book's central argument rests on karma — not as an abstract or purely religious concept, but reframed as a practical business principle: that helping others succeed (customers, suppliers, coworkers, even competitors) is what actually generates the conditions for one's own success, rather than a zero-sum, self-interested approach to competition and negotiation. Each of the book's core lessons opens with a quotation drawn from ancient Buddhist texts, which the authors then translate into concrete, applicable guidance for a 21st-century business or personal context, illustrated with real anecdotes from their own entrepreneurial experience.

The book lays out what's often described as Eight Rules (or Steps) of Karmic Management, building from the idea of noticing what currently isn't working and being willing to stop repeating it, through finding the true underlying cause of problems (going deeper than the surface-level explanation), identifying trustworthy business and life partners, and ultimately taking responsibility for one's own actions and mental habits as the actual lever for changing outcomes, rather than trying to control external circumstances or other people directly.

Throughout, the authors are explicit that this isn't a soft or purely idealistic philosophy — it's presented as a hard-nosed, results-oriented business method, backed by their own commercial success, arguing that karmic cause-and-effect operates in business dealings just as reliably (if less visibly) as conventional cause-and-effect operates in physical processes, and that a business run on these principles produces both practical results and genuine wellbeing for everyone connected to it.