Discussing “Strategy and Management from the perspective of the Book of Changes: Part 1” with students from the GBA Business School and friends – 09/06/2024 @ TST East GBA Business School

Discussion points:

1. Predict and understand the changes and development of things by selecting and interpreting hexagrams

2. Involving multiple areas such as personnel, morals, ethics, politics and personal growth

3. The Book of Changes has a wide influence in Chinese history and is an important document of wisdom and guidance

4. Can be applied to areas such as philosophical thinking, personal growth, and leadership development

5. From the commonly used idioms, we can see that the Book of Changes is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people: dragons without a leader/the universe in one’s sleeves/enlightenment teacher/no extreme peace of things/a humble gentleman

6. Hexagram words: words explaining the meaning of hexagrams

7. Xiangci: Use images to describe the truth and deep meaning contained in the “hexagrams”

8. Why is the I Ching the first of the group of classics?

9. Is the divination technique in the I Ching superstitious?

10. What is the meaning of “if you are good in I Ching, there is no need for you to apply divination technique”?

11. Divination cannot change the facts, but it can help us adopt appropriate attitudes to face problems.

12. Without constant “cultivation of virtue” and “cultivation of karma”, divination will be in vain

13. Don’t apply divination technique if you’re dishonest, if you’re unjust, and if you don’t doubt it.

14. Divination and interpretation by yourself