Feng Shui at Work A Practice for the Office

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New York real estate mogul Donald Trump regularly hires a feng shui consultant for his office tower projects. Is it marketing or is it magic?

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Feng shui practitioners would say that it depends upon who did the individual assignments. Followers of classical feng shui take issue with the prescriptions of many modern commercial types of feng shui as nothing more than clever catering to stereotypes and misconceptions. But traditional principles of feng shui (pronounced FUNG SHWAY) have been handed down in China from master to master for over 3,000 years and, in Oriental countries and their ex-patriate communities around the world, they are taken as unassailable, both in the home and the workplace.
And while feng shui may be viewed by some as a fad that’s long gone, Asians (and now more and more Westerners) view it as a normal practice in which to approach space. As Mr. Trump himself told the New York Times: “You just do it in Hong Kong. It’s like an engineering survey.” However, with the arrival in the West of many Chinese and Hong Kong companies in the 1980s and 1990s, feng shui practices are reaching numerous North American workplaces with great interest. Often, many organizations engage a feng shui practitioner whenever they build or refurbish their workplaces—whether it’s in the trend-setting technology and architectural offices of California, the office towers of Manhattan or the manufacturing plants of Quebec.
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