Mindfulness
How to Bring Calm and Focus to Your Work
”Finding time for meditation was always a challenge because I was under the impression, that I had to “do” meditation. And I didn’t have time for another burdensome thing to “do”. Fortunately, a friend pointed out one day that we don’t “do” meditation; meditation “does” us. That opened the door for me.”
Arianna Huffington (American author and well-known media mogul in Harvard Business Review on mindful meditation, December 2015)
Mindfulness is a way of dealing with our emotions, impulses and constant mind chatter to achieve inner balance.
Until lately, mindfulness was considered to be mere hype by some in the business world. However, recent research provides strong evidence that practising mindfulness techniques like meditation or just simple exercises for moment awareness, actually change the brain, and that it does so in ways that anyone working in today’s complex business environment – and certainly every leader – should know about and use it for their business success.
The ability to perceive the present with undivided attention and without judgment is now considered a fundamental core competence in management positions. In our complex working world, every manager should therefore learn this skill and use it for their business success.