| Albert Low is 76 years
of age and was a business executive for
the first half of his life employed as a
senior human resource executive in South
Africa and later in Canada. In Canada he
was responsible for introducing a new way
of company organization and he lectured
widely on creativity in management.
He has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy
and was awarded an honorary Doctorate degree
by Queen’s University, Ontario for
academic achievement and community service.
He has practiced Zen Buddhism intensely
for 40 years. In 1976 he retired from the
business world to study and teach Zen Buddhism
on a full time basis. He spent three years
on the staff of the Rochester Zen Center.
He has been the teacher and director of
the Montreal Zen Center since 1979.
When human resource executive he studied
the management theories of the Tavistock
Institute and in particular the theories
of Elliot Jaques and Lord Wilfred Brown
of the Glacier Metal Industry. He is very
widely read in Western and Eastern philosophy
and psychology and Western science, and
has spent many years as a psychological
counselor.
Albert Low is the author of numerous widely
translated books on Zen, including the classic
Zen and Creative Management, The Iron
Cow of Zen, An Invitation to Practice Zen,
and Creating Consciousness. In
1996, Fast Company magazine profiled
Zen and Creative Management, originally
published in 1976, as a prescient forerunner
of the present interest in complexity, ambiguity,
and spirituality in management. Low has
given many TV and radio broadcasts, written
numerous articles for magazines, and is
well known in Europe, Australia and throughout
North America.
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