I get sometimes asked advice about how to best run a business. Can Daoist, or Buddhist thought can help one to do so? It seems to most that both Daoism and Buddhism are averse of doing business. In fact they are not. What they say is that wealth is a distracter from meaningful things. It takes a good person to be able to deal with money and wealth, that is, to use it for helpful ends. 
Well, there you go, the problem proposed in the question is solved.

The question following then for everyone in business is first and foremost: 'am I a good person?' This question is not a fashionable one. Often i get reprimanded for asking that question, while recent events in world politics and envronmental disasters show that the question in fact is a most relevant one, and it isn't asked often enough. Asking this question brings forward to our attention the question to ‘what is goodness?’  in your thoughts very quickly. Ofcourse, that one is not easily answered, and often is part of the quest of life.

Besides these questions, people invite me to come talk about their business, explain them what Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism do or want and how it could help them. Satisfying curiousity is what i do. Good business people ofcourse are curious, and since China is aiming to be such a big player in the world it is a good idea to understand some aspects of Chinese cultural ways of handling things. We talk organization, personality development, planning, decoration, behavioural models, staff selection, product development and do generally fun things to get to serious answers. Sometimes we talk about self-experience as a foundation for developing leadership qualities, and some I coach for many years in that process. Others I just connect with others in the hope to further their business.

If Daoism they often say:  ‘in reversal we find Dao’, so in reversing the question ‘what is the Dao of business?’ we can reverse and say ‘what is the business of Dao?’ It is a common logic to do so in many issues. Try it, it works. For instance people wonder often if other people like them, but they could also ask themselves if they like these other people. Not rarely the answer is shocking, and leads to behavioural changes, which cause others to like them better. 

The business of Dao is to bring things/people in harmony with the greater order of things. So if your business helps that, you are in the Business of Dao too. The Business of Dao is therefore Moral business. Reversed we see that the Dao of business is about ethics too. So are you a good person? Am I a good person? Does your or my business dedicate itself to moral things? In a morally beneficial way? These questions are also not easily answered. But at least we may assume or should assume everyone tries to be a good person. So in doing moral business you actually proof you are a good person and in making concessions that go at the expense of goodness, you can wonder… what happens to your goodness… Well, ask the people you work with, ask your costumers, ask about their expectations of you.  Do they believe you have their best interest in mind when you serve them? Do they even dare to tell you?

In general we find we as persons are ill defined, instead of being something fixed, we are more like trends: we are becoming better or successively worse. In either way we can find a way to be successful. It is up to our choises. In the end we are just what we see in the world when we wake up in the morning.