The fourteenth Dalai Lama visited Silicon Valley last week to discuss the role of compassion in business with two audiences convened at Santa Clara University. Some 3700 tickets for the morning public event were snapped up in less than fifteen minutes. Dignity Health CEO Lloyd Dean held a dialogue with the 78-year old-spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Later, four hundred Silicon Valley leaders attended a private afternoon session featuring Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke, former biotech CEO and Intel Chair Jane Shaw, and scholar Monica Worline talking in greater depth with the Dalai Lama about whether compassion can and should play a strong role in business — particularly in the intensely competitive world of Silicon Valley business.
The Dalai Lama had three core messages for the afternoon audience, including a couple that will be hard for Silicon Valley to accept and put in practice.
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