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As leaders, you’re often told to that in order to stem overthinking, you need to “get out of your head.” And while it’s true that too much introspection causes either oversimplification or excessive rumination, a new leadership book suggests that you should consider what’s going on in that noggin of yours. Want to improve your leadership? The place to start is your mind.
Via Kasia Hein-Peters, Maite Finch
Dedicado a divulgar los mejores conocimientos y prácticas de administración de las organizaciones y empresas.
Via Manuel Gross
How do you want to make a difference in this world?
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so the world will be at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it. ― (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
What is great leadership? Ultimately, there is no right or wrong definition. Across my 30-year career I’ve discovered it’s many things —
Don't try to be perfect, just try to be better than you were yesterday.
To lead successfully requires earning the confidence of those who are to be led.
A workshop or two can help provide tools for resilience, but other improvements require practice.
La Teoría U es una práctica desarrollada por Otto Scharmer que nos permite la Innovación en las Organizaciones y en la Vida Personal a través de la transformación real de las cosas. Cuando queremos realizar un cambio siempre lo hacemos desde patrones del pasado, por lo que el resultado que obtenemos son cosas “nuevas” pero con…
Via Francesc Mas
Research shows mindfulness makes you happier. But nobody ever really explains how it works. Here's the neuroscience of mindfulness and how it can help you.
Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.
If mindfulness was a measured objective for executives, would the business world be a better place?
Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.
All you need is a single breath.
What if I told you that the way to change the world was not to be bold, resolute, brilliant, or even compassionate? What if I told you that the way to change the world was to be sad? It sounds so improbable. When we think of those who have taught us the most about meaningful change, we think of people who are very, very brave, say, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama. Unwavering. Deep. Devoted to others and willing to die for what they believe, quite literally. How do you get to be such a person? Well, I have no idea, but I would put money on the idea that the ground, path, and fruition of their lives is sadness. When you look out at this world, what you see will make you very, very sad. This is good. You are seeing clearly. Genuine sadness gives rise, spontaneously, naturally, completely, to the wish—no, the longing—to be of benefit to others. When your wish to help is rooted in love (i.e. sadness), it is effective. There is no question.
Via David Hain
Leaders of high-intensity, high-performing organizations are beginning to recognize the important effects of mindfulness, exercise, and sleep on the body and the brain.
Via Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
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“Ultimate wellbeing has nothing to do with what's outside us,” says Daniel Goleman. What would happen if we could fully take charge of our own wellbeing... and what's the neuroscience that will help make it so?
Via Pavel Barta, Ei4Change
Mindfulness has become the corporate fad du jour, a practice widely touted as a fast-track to better leadership. But we suspect that not all the benefits laid at its feet actually belong there. Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers. Mindfulness is a method of shifting your attention inward to observe your thoughts, feelings, and actions without interpretation or judgment. A mindfulness practice often begins simply by focusing on your breath, noticing when your mind wanders, and then bringing it back to your breath. As you strengthen your ability to concentrate, you can then shift to simply noting your inner experience without getting lost in it at any point in your day. The benefits attributed to this kind of practice range from stronger relationships with others to higher levels of leadership performance.
Via The Learning Factor
Everyone has this power, some of us just don’t realize it.
In the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, written in 1989, Stephen R. Covey speaks about developing a habit of continuous improvement called Sharpen the Saw®. This habit focuses on what he calls “your greatest asset…” which is You! He refers to a balanced program for self-renewal which includes both physical and mental aspects. It’s about increasing our capacity to be productive, manage challenging situations and to cope with change - sustainably and efficiently.
Today this habit is more relevant than ever. Across industries, organisations expect employees and leaders to apply agile and lean principles to maintain a constant pace and welcome changing requirements, respectively reduce waste in the value chain and create flow.
In October 2016, the UK’s All-Parliamentary Group published a second report to build the case for mindfulness in the workplace. This article shares some of the reports key findings and anecdotes from case studies. But first, let’s explore what mindfulness is and why there’s such a growing trend in using mindfulness to improve wellbeing in the workplace.
Just as the body is influenced by what you eat, your mind is also influenced by your thoughts, your mindset and your life experiences. With mindfulness, you can train your mind to be in the present moment and spend less time preoccupied with unhelpful, unproductive thoughts. Recognizing that I am not my thoughts and that thoughts are simply that, thoughts has been hugely helpful in terms of the way I experience the world. In this post, I interviewed two coaches, Kat Shinoda and Scott DiNardo, M.Ed on how you can use mindfulness to get out of the habit of persistent, negative thought patterns.
Via John Evans
El arte de gestionar tu atención sin esfuerzo mejorando algunos hábitos
Via Manuel Gross
It is easy to think of meditation as a waste of time or something to be done only if you had spare time on your hands. But according to author Tom Evans, when you get into the habit of meditating each day, even if just for 10 minutes, you will discover a range of attributes to boost your business. Here are Tom’s top five business hacks as a result of bringing mindfulness into your life:
Mindfulness matters, but make no mistake: Corporations are co-opting the idea to disguise the ways they kill us.
In today's busy world, it can be hard to shut out distractions such as noise and electronic devices, and our own thoughts or reactions can draw us away from a conversation. So, how can we listen more effectively? When we listen "mindfully," we can be aware of these barriers and still remain open to the speaker's ideas and messages.
In this article, we explore mindful listening and suggest simple ways you can use this technique to improve your listening skills.
According to a new study, a mindfulness training program could help law enforcement officers cope with a harrowing job.
Suppose you’re confined to a nursing home. You’re elderly, you’ve lost much of your mobility, and your faculties are deteriorating. Along comes a Harvard University social psychology professor named Ellen Langer who takes you away on a retreat, where everything is transformed into the way it looked and felt when you were 25. Radios with vacuum tubes play rockabilly and Perry Como, a hardcover copy of Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger sits on a Danish modern coffee table (the movie won’t be released for several years yet), the clothing is au courant for 1959, and the conversation covers recent events like Fidel Castro’s invasion of Havana. The staff treat you like you’re in the prime of physical health, making you carry your own suitcases upstairs even if you haven’t recently lifted anything nearly that heavy. You know, at some level, that this is all a fictional recreation. But as it comes alive around you, you find yourself paying attention to your environment in ways you haven’t done in years.
Via The Learning Factor
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