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At Work
Applying the same ideas in the workplace: leadership, teamwork, focus, communication and culture.
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Mindfulness Return on Investment (ROI)
The usual return-on-investment calculation for workplace mindfulness does not survive scrutiny. Here is what the evidence actually supports, and the one variable that decides…
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A Guide to Mindfulness at Work
Mindfulness initiatives fail in a predictable way: a course gets delivered and nothing changes. Here are the seven components that determine whether it takes,…
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Diversity and Inclusion
Salesforce audited its own pay and found a gap it had actively tried to prevent. Bias is not usually a failure of intent. It…
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Mindful and Compassionate Leadership
Google studied 180 teams to find what makes them effective. The answer was not who was on the team. It was whether people could…
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Relationship and Social Management
How you manage a relationship depends on beliefs you hold about yourself at least as much as beliefs about the other person. Other people’s…
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Self-Management
Self-management is usually described as regulating your reactions. That points at the wrong end of the chain. What you are actually managing is the…
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Mindfulness and Teamwork
Google expected team performance to come down to who was on the team. It did not. What mattered most was whether people could speak…
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Increasing Focus and Productivity
Our minds are elsewhere roughly half the time, and a wandering mind tends to be an unhappy one. Attention is a trainable skill, and…
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Reducing Stress and Increasing Well-Being with Mindfulness
We are almost always under some stress. What decides whether it sharpens us or drains us is what we believe about our ability to…
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Mindful Communication
Most of what goes wrong in a conversation goes wrong before anyone says anything difficult. Generous listening, the pause, and why other people’s words…
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Mindfulness, Motivation and Goals
Motivation is not a resource you top up. It follows from what people believe about their own skills and the size of the challenge,…
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Mindfulness and Customer Focus
Serving customers well is a skill problem rather than a process problem. Empathy increases with recognized similarity, and compassion is what keeps front-line people…
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Mindfulness and Creativity
Most of what suppresses creative work is not a shortage of ideas. It is the cost of saying one out loud. Here is what…
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Mindful Workplaces
Most organizations treat mindfulness as a class, then wonder why nothing changes. A lecture about exercise does not make anyone fitter. Here is what…