It's no surprise this small publisher recognizes the value of mindfulness; when I dropped by it had just released Minclfulness at Work, an audio instruction by Mirabai Bush, the woman who introduced mindfulness to Google.
SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE
Business leaders are increasingly pressured by the acceleration of complexity in the systems they need to navigate: there's the global ization of markets, suppliers, and organizations; the hyperspeed of evolving information technologies; impending ecological dangers; products coming to market and becoming obsolete faster. It can make your head spin.
"Most leaders just don't pause," a seasoned leadership coach tells me. "But you need the time to reflect."
His boss, the head of a mega-sized investment management firm, put it this way: "If I don't protect that kind of time, I really get thrown off."
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George agrees. "Today's leaders are besieged. They're scheduled every fifteen minutes throughout the day, with thousands of interruptions and distractions. You need to find some quiet time in your day just to reflect."
Selting aside some regular reflective time in the daily or weekly schedule might help us get beyond the firefight-of-the-day men tality, to take stock and look ahead. Very diverse thinkers, from ongressman Tim Ryan to Columbia University economist Jeffrey
D. Sachs, are calling for mindfulness as a way to help leaders see the bigger picture. They propose we need not just mindful lead ers, but a mindful society, one where we bring a triple focus: to our own well-being, that of others, and the operations of the broader systems that shape our lives.
It's no surprise this small publisher recognizes the value of mindfulness; when I dropped by it had just released Minclfulness at Work, an audio instruction by Mirabai Bush, the woman who introduced mindfulness to Google.
SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE
Business leaders are increasingly pressured by the acceleration of complexity in the systems they need to navigate: there's the global ization of markets, suppliers, and organizations; the hyperspeed of evolving information technologies; impending ecological dangers; products coming to market and becoming obsolete faster. It can make your head spin.
"Most leaders just don't pause," a seasoned leadership coach tells me. "But you need the time to reflect."
His boss, the head of a mega-sized investment management firm, put it this way: "If I don't protect that kind of time, I really get thrown off."
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George agrees. "Today's leaders are besieged. They're scheduled every fifteen minutes throughout the day, with thousands of interruptions and distractions. You need to find some quiet time in your day just to reflect."
Selting aside some regular reflective time in the daily or weekly schedule might help us get beyond the firefight-of-the-day men tality, to take stock and look ahead. Very diverse thinkers, from ongressman Tim Ryan to Columbia University economist Jeffrey
D. Sachs, are calling for mindfulness as a way to help leaders see the bigger picture. They propose we need not just mindful lead ers, but a mindful society, one where we bring a triple focus: to our own well-being, that of others, and the operations of the broader systems that shape our lives.
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It's no surprise this small publisher recognizes the value of mindfulness; when I dropped by it had just released Minclfulness at Work, an audio instruction by Mirabai Bush, the woman who introduced mindfulness to Google.
SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE
Business leaders are increasingly pressured by the acceleration of complexity in the systems they need to navigate: there's the global ization of markets, suppliers, and organizations; the hyperspeed of evolving information technologies; impending ecological dangers; products coming to market and becoming obsolete faster. It can make your head spin.
"Most leaders just don't pause," a seasoned leadership coach tells me. "But you need the time to reflect."
His boss, the head of a mega-sized investment management firm, put it this way: "If I don't protect that kind of time, I really get thrown off."
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George agrees. "Today's leaders are besieged. They're scheduled every fifteen minutes throughout the day, with thousands of interruptions and distractions. You need to find some quiet time in your day just to reflect."
Selting aside some regular reflective time in the daily or weekly schedule might help us get beyond the firefight-of-the-day men tality, to take stock and look ahead. Very diverse thinkers, from ongressman Tim Ryan to Columbia University economist Jeffrey
D. Sachs, are calling for mindfulness as a way to help leaders see the bigger picture. They propose we need not just mindful lead ers, but a mindful society, one where we bring a triple focus: to our own well-being, that of others, and the operations of the broader systems that shape our lives.
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