Karma, Drama, and Dharma by Geoff Marlow.

Over 2,000 years, Christianity has so far spawned more than 45,000 branches. It’s therefore not surprising that the wisdom tradition that emerged in the Indus Valley 4,000-8,000 years ago has no single coherent, universal set of beliefs, philosophies, and practices.

In fact, the widely diverse and often conflicting collection of Indian philosophical perspectives on life, the universe, and everything was first grouped together under the name “Hinduism” by 18th century British colonial powers.

Western philosophy, especially emerging from Germany, has drawn to its pool of knowledge from this vast ocean of theory and practice.

Over the past 35 years, Geoff’s professional focus on helping organisations throughout Europe, Asia and the US create future-fit cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness has been informed by various insights and inspirations from his personal study and practice of ancient wisdom from the Indian subcontinent.

In this week’s DD, titled “Karma, Drama, and Dharma”, Geoff will offer a taste of the power, depth, and relevance of Indian philosophy, cosmology, and mythology.

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Geoff Marlow https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymarlow/

Geoff began his professional career as a digital systems engineer with British Aerospace and the BBC, before moving to the open innovation lab Cambridge Consultants, where he ran the Digital Systems Group.

When a client of the lab asked: "Could you come and make our people behave more like your people?" it launched the career path Geoff’s been on ever since – helping clients create future-fit organisational cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

He worked with Peter Senge and Arie de Geus on the Board of the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) and with former UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen on the Board of the Daedalus Trust – addressing negative personality changes associated with the exercise of power – aka “Hubris Syndrome”.

He publishes regularly on the Create a Future-Fit Culture Substack channel: https://geoffmarlow.substack.com/