Stoicism Aplied to Business Management

Abstract

This brief study attempts to present a historical, theoretical-conceptual, and narrative framework inspired by Stoicism as a means to achieve optimized decision-making, emotional stability, and organizational integrity in volatile corporate environments, where diverse emotions arise and, if mishandled, can lead the organization to risky conditions.

The lack of methods and techniques that allow corporate leaders from various segments to differentiate between the controllable and the uncontrollable and act with rectitude motivates this research. The objective is to identify five fundamental Stoic principles—the dichotomy of control, virtue, amor fati, ataraxia, and prohairesis—so that they can be used in business and corporate management practices. A qualitative analysis of classical texts (Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius) and contemporary modern sources (Hadot, Becker, Pigliucci, Holiday, Robertson, Leighton) is used, complementing the design with operational proposals.