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ZENTREPRENEURISM is the fusion of one's personal vision with one's professional mission. While an entrepreneur creates a business, a zentrepreneur creates a business and a life. There have been a number of books written on the subjsct of Zen, Buddha, and indeed a guide for Zentrepreneurs,by Stuart Avery Gold and Ron Rubin, however Allan Holender's forthcoming book called simply ZENTREPRENEURISM-"The New World of Doing Business" is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of what well may be the way we do business in North America for the next 1,000 years. It's scheduled to be released in May. The fusion of one's personal vision with one's professional mission, grounded in activism and a holistic philosophy, is surfacing across a wide spectrum of successful and purposeful businesses. It is the author's belief that we are entering an era of "Enlightened Capitalism", where the bottom line is not the only reason to be in business.

Arran Stephens, symbolizes the very essence of the modern day Zentrepreneuer. He started his entrepreneurial journey on 4th Avenue in Vancouver B.C. Canada decades ago as the owner of an organic restaurant. Today he is the CEO and Founder of North America's largest producer of organic cereals, Natures Path Foods. He runs his company like his life, beginning his day at 4:00 a.m. with meditation, during which time he says he receives inner guidance and wisdom to take on the challenge of running a 25 million dollar company.

Shareholders who might have thought that by hiring a Zen thinking CEO would have been a recipe for disaster, cutting into profits and efficiency of operation are now embracing the new "enlightened leader" in an attempt to distance themselves from Jeffrey Skilling of Enron, Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom and Conrad Black.

Creating profits with integrity are replacing profits for greed. Arran believes that there is a more enlightened approach to business these days, which is called "THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE". Its focus is no longer driven by bottom line results. It's driven by other factors; economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social justice. Leave the smallest possible environmental footprint in the operation of your business and personal life.

Today's highly competitive marketplace requires business to constantly evolve, adapt and innovate in order to succeed. Employees have to break out of the bindings of traditional corporate thinking, and inject energy, enthusiasm and boldness to the mission, unabashedly becoming in more ways, than some ways, a "Zenployee" or zentrepreneur.

The do-gooding experience coupled with the zentrepreneuristic mood of the millennium will have far-reaching political, social, and economic implications.

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ZENTROPOLIS "URBAN NIRVANA" - The virtual alternative blueprint to global greed, power, poverty, crime and war. A cyber community of children, parents, adults, and elders designing a community of compassion, mutual synergy, healthy cooperative relationships with a sense of purpose, passion and profits with integrity. A community of commerce built on the principles of Zentrepreneurism. The next step after Pangea Day! Created by the Founder of Zentrepreneurism, Allan Holender on May 11, 2008.  For more information on the book and the principles of Zentrepreneurism, go to www.zentrepreneurism.com