Kabbalah and Business
What is Kabbalah and why do we care?
Because Kabbalah is a science, not a religion. Life has no spirituality to detect with our senses
According to Michael Laitman, a former scientist turned Kabbalist
The point 5 has to be discovered, it is not visible through common senses
Design Thinking is sort of tightly defined around customers and it is mostly invisible.
Since 1970 we pay attention and record failed and successful products. The number 1 reason or failed products, based on research the last 50 years is overwhelmingly the lack of understanding of customer and user needs
We still do not know or have not been successful how to embed a customer focus deeply in an organization
Most organizations today make their decisions on basis of numbers that sometimes have NOTHING to do with whether they’re satisfying their customers. For example, market share.
Sarah Beckman from UC Berkeley says: What I really want to get to is what I call meaning based needs, what are the outcomes that customers are trying to achieve, and what’s standing in the way of them achieving those outcome
To illustrate she gives the example Huggies Pull Up diapers which came up not from redesigning the tabs on the diapers, but because they understood the parents who were nervous about toilet training. That is a meaning based need
So what are the meaning based needs for edge computing? 5G? Digital Transformation?
We do not know, but discovering the meaning based needs are equivalent to the spirituality of edge computing, 5G and so on. This is why I, edge computer, should become alive.
According to Michael Laitman, a former scientist turned Kabbalist
In Kabbalah, all of one’s earthly desires are regarded as “the heart,” while the desire to discover the meaning of life is described as “the point in the heart.” The point in the heart is a desire that awakens in our hearts and pulls us “upward.” That new desire led Abraham to discover the complete reality, the spiritual reality.
Rediscovery
The Jewish nation was not formed on a racial or a national basis. Jews today are incarnations of the same people gathered around Abraham in ancient Babylon to realize the spiritual idea of “Love thy friend as thyself” . It does not matter if they were black, white or yellow.
We were all used to say Kabbalah is Jewish Mysticism and no one really knew what it means. The current word Mystic did not exist before 17th century. This is a quote from Oxford Dictionary:
Middle English (in the sense ‘mystical meaning’): from Old French mystique, or via Latin from Greek mustikos, from mustēs ‘initiated person’ from muein ‘close the eyes or lips’, also ‘initiate’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 17th century.Hidden for thousands of years, the Kabbalah was rediscovered 200 years ago. The original text of the Zohar is very difficult to read. The Daniel Matt scholarly translation to English published by Stanford University Press is still ongoing
Perfection is not happiness
From Michael LaitmanI may have everything in the corporeal sense, but I feel that it is all worthless, that I am completely dissatisfied. Why? I haven’t a clue but it is what I feel. I have a home, I make a good living, I can afford to travel, to enjoy myself, I have friends, yet something is missing.” In previous generations, people lived far worse than we do. Compared to them, our lives are lives of kings, yet they are tasteless. The emptiness experienced today is leading us to discover what lies behind the verse, “Taste and see that the Lord is good,” which Kabbalists offer to us as the remedy. We must discover the upper force that creates us, that takes us through this process, and that is now pulling us back to it through the question, “What am I living for?” This question is really like a door handle. If we open that door we will discover heaven.
Kabbalah and business design
In every new service, product or process, we are looking for the point 5, the meaning of life.Design Thinking is sort of tightly defined around customers and it is mostly invisible.
Since 1970 we pay attention and record failed and successful products. The number 1 reason or failed products, based on research the last 50 years is overwhelmingly the lack of understanding of customer and user needs
We still do not know or have not been successful how to embed a customer focus deeply in an organization
Most organizations today make their decisions on basis of numbers that sometimes have NOTHING to do with whether they’re satisfying their customers. For example, market share.
Sarah Beckman from UC Berkeley says: What I really want to get to is what I call meaning based needs, what are the outcomes that customers are trying to achieve, and what’s standing in the way of them achieving those outcome
To illustrate she gives the example Huggies Pull Up diapers which came up not from redesigning the tabs on the diapers, but because they understood the parents who were nervous about toilet training. That is a meaning based need
So what are the meaning based needs for edge computing? 5G? Digital Transformation?
We do not know, but discovering the meaning based needs are equivalent to the spirituality of edge computing, 5G and so on. This is why I, edge computer, should become alive.
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