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Mindful Leadership Receives Warm Welcome at Davos - Huff Post, Jan.2013
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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader - Bill George - HBS Faculty - Harvard Business Review, Oct 2012
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As part of the 'Leadership: A Master Class' series, September 2012, Daniel Goleman talks with Erica Fox about the future relationship between mindfulness and business practice. They discuss the probability of an emerging corporate landscape where a person's awareness is considered core competency, and business meetings include a moment for silent reflection. Erica Ariel Fox is a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and adviser with the internationally acclaimed Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON).
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Financial Time Magazine, August 2012
Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality
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The Wall-Street Journal, April 2012
Business schools - IMD, Harvard are beginning to embrace a practice that has grown popular in the corporate world—teaching and studying mindfulness. At IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, leadership professor Ben Bryant introduces his executive-education students to techniques for concentrating on their breathing and becoming aware of sounds and sensations, which he says can help them center themselves at the office or in a business meeting.
Read Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness article
Mindful Leadership Receives Warm Welcome at Davos - Huff Post, Jan.2013
read article
Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader - Bill George - HBS Faculty - Harvard Business Review, Oct 2012
read article
As part of the 'Leadership: A Master Class' series, September 2012, Daniel Goleman talks with Erica Fox about the future relationship between mindfulness and business practice. They discuss the probability of an emerging corporate landscape where a person's awareness is considered core competency, and business meetings include a moment for silent reflection. Erica Ariel Fox is a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and adviser with the internationally acclaimed Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON).
3min video
Financial Time Magazine, August 2012
Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality
Read The mind business article and case study
The Wall-Street Journal, April 2012
Business schools - IMD, Harvard are beginning to embrace a practice that has grown popular in the corporate world—teaching and studying mindfulness. At IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, leadership professor Ben Bryant introduces his executive-education students to techniques for concentrating on their breathing and becoming aware of sounds and sensations, which he says can help them center themselves at the office or in a business meeting.
Read Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness article
Harvard Business Review on Mindful Leadership, January 2012
What if, instead of stuffing people with curricula, models, and competencies, we focused on deepening their sense of purpose, expanding their capability to navigate difficulty and complexity, and enriching their emotional resilience? What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?
In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?
Read Developing Mindful Leaders article
The Ashridge Journal: Mindful leadership: Exploring the value of a meditation practice; Spring 2011
The practice of meditation in the business world is increasingly moving from the fringe to the mainstream, and already features as a key part of a number of international management and organisation development programmes.
This study provides early indications to support existing work in this field, which incorporates mindfulness and meditation in leadership development and sustainability.
The practice of meditation in the business world is increasingly moving from the fringe to the mainstream, and already features as a key part of a number of international management and organisation development programmes.
This study provides early indications to support existing work in this field, which incorporates mindfulness and meditation in leadership development and sustainability.
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McKinsey Quaterly, January 2011
The myth of multitasking: "Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity and making us unhappy," McKinsey Quarterly
The myth of multitasking: "Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity and making us unhappy," McKinsey Quarterly
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Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart people Underperform, Harvard Business Review article
Managers suffer—"like many of your colleagues, and possibly like you—from a very real but unrecognized neurological phenomenon that I call attention deficit trait, or ADT. Caused by brain overload, ADT is now epidemic in organizations. The core symptoms are distractibility, inner frenzy, and impatience. People with ADT have difficulty staying organized, setting priorities, and managing time. These symptoms can undermine the work of an otherwise gifted executive."
Read Harward Business Review article
Managers suffer—"like many of your colleagues, and possibly like you—from a very real but unrecognized neurological phenomenon that I call attention deficit trait, or ADT. Caused by brain overload, ADT is now epidemic in organizations. The core symptoms are distractibility, inner frenzy, and impatience. People with ADT have difficulty staying organized, setting priorities, and managing time. These symptoms can undermine the work of an otherwise gifted executive."
Read Harward Business Review article
Oxford University Professor Mark Williams, talks about stress and the effectiveness of mindfulness on our mental health and well-being. Excellent 3 minutes video.
Companies who have adopted mindfulness practices - Mindfulnet Organization
This document contains a list of major employers who have integrated mindfulness in some shape or form into the workplace, and a few examples of how mindfulness is being used. The names of the organisations have been drawn from a variety of sources.
This document contains a list of major employers who have integrated mindfulness in some shape or form into the workplace, and a few examples of how mindfulness is being used. The names of the organisations have been drawn from a variety of sources.
| the_business_case_for_mindfulness_in_the_workplace.pdf |
The cost of workplace stress - Mindfulnet Organization
"The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in the US estimate that stress-related ailments cost companies about $200 billion a year in increased absenteeism, tardiness, and the loss of talented workers. Between 70% to 90% of employee hospital visits are linked to stress. And job tension is directly tied to a lack of productivity and loss of competitive edge.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK, echo these findings. In 2008/09 an estimated 415 000 workers in Britain, believed that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill. The 2009 Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) survey indicated that around 16.7% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful. The annual incidence of work-related mental health problems in Britain in 2008 was approximately 5,126 new cases per year. However, this almost certainly underestimates the true incidence of these conditions in the British workforce. Estimates indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for an estimated 11.4 million lost working days in Britain in 2008/09.
An increasing number of companies are using mindfulness to address workplace tension. Increasingly overstretched and overburdened employees are using mindfulness to improve the quality of their lives. Many companies are offering free, on-site classes, partly due to compelling findings at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Massachusetts, and the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University that mindfulness enhances the qualities companies need; such as increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition and better concentration.
Mindfulness has some high-profile corporate disciples, including Pacific Investment Management, Apple Computer, Yahoo!, Google, McKinsey, Deutsche Bank, Hughes Aircraft .Procter & Gamble, and Starbucks.
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in the US offers mindfulness meditation courses aimed at energizing its 5,000 employees during and after marathon meetings. AstraZeneca now fund research and support mindfulness programmes.
In comparison to the cost of employee sickness, mindfulness programs are relatively inexpensive, and can aid employee motivation and retention, as employees often regard mindfulness programmes as a " job perk". " - Mindfulnet Organization
"The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in the US estimate that stress-related ailments cost companies about $200 billion a year in increased absenteeism, tardiness, and the loss of talented workers. Between 70% to 90% of employee hospital visits are linked to stress. And job tension is directly tied to a lack of productivity and loss of competitive edge.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK, echo these findings. In 2008/09 an estimated 415 000 workers in Britain, believed that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill. The 2009 Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) survey indicated that around 16.7% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful. The annual incidence of work-related mental health problems in Britain in 2008 was approximately 5,126 new cases per year. However, this almost certainly underestimates the true incidence of these conditions in the British workforce. Estimates indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for an estimated 11.4 million lost working days in Britain in 2008/09.
An increasing number of companies are using mindfulness to address workplace tension. Increasingly overstretched and overburdened employees are using mindfulness to improve the quality of their lives. Many companies are offering free, on-site classes, partly due to compelling findings at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Massachusetts, and the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University that mindfulness enhances the qualities companies need; such as increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition and better concentration.
Mindfulness has some high-profile corporate disciples, including Pacific Investment Management, Apple Computer, Yahoo!, Google, McKinsey, Deutsche Bank, Hughes Aircraft .Procter & Gamble, and Starbucks.
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in the US offers mindfulness meditation courses aimed at energizing its 5,000 employees during and after marathon meetings. AstraZeneca now fund research and support mindfulness programmes.
In comparison to the cost of employee sickness, mindfulness programs are relatively inexpensive, and can aid employee motivation and retention, as employees often regard mindfulness programmes as a " job perk". " - Mindfulnet Organization
