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Corporate focus

Inventory

1. Haastin

Haastin is a Native American from Navajo tribe. His name means “Man”. He is from Arizona from an area near The Grand Canyon. He wears clothes woven at his home. He plays his traditional tribal drum. He works in Human Resource Department of a company in Chicago whose mission is to emphasize work force and cultural diversity.

1. Farm house

This farm house is Haastin’s real home. His wife Nizhoni lives there. Nizhoni means “Beautiful”. She weaves clothes using their traditional method for commercial purpose. The farm house is in Arizona. Their house is built with wooden poles, tree bark, and mud. The Grand Canyon is near the farm house. They own a horse.

1. Fossil

This is a shell fossil formed in sandstone. This fossil was given to Haastin by his father as a symbol of luck, courage, and knowledge. This fossil was found in Arizona in the area near the Grand Canyon. Haastin always keeps the fossil with him.

1. Maasai Trophy

This is a sculpture of a Maasai. Maasai’s are nomads from East Africa mainly Kenya and Tanzania. This Maasai trophy is the winning prize for the Cultural Music Contest held in Kenya.

1. Arrowhead

It is an arrowhead from Mongolia where Genghis Khan ruled. Mongolians still use arrows to hunt. This is a traditional arrowhead made from stone. It has simple decorative drawings on it.

1. Canoe

This canoe is made of birch wood in China. It also has two feathers in it which is for safe voyage.

1. Wallet

This wallet is also from Mongolia and has an embossed print of an elephant, a monkey, and a huge birch tree.

1. Carved Head

This carved head is a replica of a female monk from Nepal. Her name is Ani Chyoing Dolma and she’s also a singer who uses music to influence peace.

1. The Treasure

The treasure is a stone lion sculpture located in South West China in Daocheng. Stone lion sculptures are placed in front of temples, monasteries, houses, and hotels in China as a symbol for power and protection. This stone lion is based in front of a small monastery in Yading Nature Reserve. There are sacred lakes and three sacred mountains in the area. They are sacred to Tibetan Buddhists for they are the representation of the compassion, wisdom, and energy that are essential to reaching enlightenment and the end of suffering. The inscriptions at the base of the stone lion reads “Ethics, truth, knowledge, and invent”.


The Story

Amitola – Rainbow

In the windy city of Chicago, works a man named Haastin for a human resource company that prioritizes on workforce and cultural diversity. In order to help their employees to maintain this, the management emphasizes cultural participation and vacations to places of new cultures.

One day, Haastin receives a letter from the management. It is about a cultural music contest in Kenya. As there will be participants from all around the world sharing their culture through music, the management realizes that knowing more about cultures will help them to achieve their mission. So they think the best idea is to send Haastin to participate in that contest to learn more about cultures which the company can benefit from the report submitted by Haastin.

Haastin takes his tribal drum and his lucky shell fossil with him that was given to him by his father a tribe leader from the Navajo, and goes to Kenya. Haastin participates in the music contest and wins a Maasai Trophy. In the competition, Haastin meets people from all around the world and learns a lot about cultures. He also meets Ani Choying Dolma, a female monk and singer from Nepal. This is the first time he meets and gets the idea of female monks. Haastin becomes fascinated by this opportunity to learn more about cultures and gather more wisdom. Having developed a strong friendship with Ani, he tells her about his company and why he participated in the contest. Ani gives him a stone arrowhead as a gift. She tells him to find out about the arrowhead and clues which will lead him to the greatest treasurein the world . He calls his boss and begs him to extend his leave.

Haastin searches for clues and finds out that Mongolia has an arrowhead in its national flag. He also finds out that Mongolians still use arrows to hunt and play sports. So he decides to go to Mongolia to find the treasure and departs.

In Mongolia, Haastin finds out that it was once ruled by the Great Genghis Khan and the downward facing arrowhead in the flag meant “Death to the enemies of the People”. He also finds out that 96% of the Mongolians practice Tibetan Buddhism, meaning that they were originally from Tibet. He goes to an antique storewere the store keeper is also monk unknown to Haastin, and inquires about the arrowhead. The store keeper says nothing but gives him a wallet. The wallet has an embossed print of an elephant, a monkey, and a huge tree.

Haastin realizes that he is an adventure and needs to solve several clues before he can get to the treasure. So once again he researches about the wallet and the print on it. He finds out that there are no elephants in Mongolia. The nearest elephant population was in China, so he leaves for China.

Upon reaching China he is still clueless about where to go. So he inquires people there and finds out that the huge tree on the wallet is of Birch tree. In search of birch tree he reaches southwest China. There he finds a sacred lake. He sees people crossing the lake using birch wood canoe. He also uses one of the birch wood canoes. The canoe has two feathers in it which symbolized safe voyage.

After safely crossing the lake, he reaches Yading Nature Reserve. But he is still not sure what to do next. So he talks with few people there and finds out that there are monkeys in Swoyambhunath Temple in Nepal. As Ani was from Nepal, he concludes that he should look for a monastery. So he looks for a monastery in the Reserve and finds a small monastery. The monastery has a stone lion on the door. In China, stone lions placed on the door were for power and protection. On the base of the lion statue was an inscription. The inscription means “Ethics, truth, knowledge, and invent.” Behind the monastery he sees three sacred mountains. These three mountains symbolized compassion, wisdom, and energy.

Haastin realizes that, the great treasure he was looking for wasn’t of any materialistic element, but spiritual and human. And the female monk, having known what Haastin was in search of, decided to give him more so planned the adventure from which he could gain more than what he could have from the music contest only.

Having won the contest and having learned more than what he had come to achieve, he goes back to Chicago with a report which could certainly help his company to recruit human resources full of workforce diversity and to better understand them.

In this world of globalization and workforce diversity, it is very essential to know about people among you, around you, and from other places. This will helps us to better deal with them and maximize our business. Businesses today are not only limited to local level or national level, but have become global, and the employees are not from a single culture, but from diverse culture. So understanding them is the key to success. And when doing business, we should have Amitola – Ethics, Truth, Knowledge, Invent, Wisdom, Compassion, and Energy – the rainbow, the seven factors to be a better man, better human being.