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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

It’s a form of meditation that businesses are beginning to embrace as a way to help employees become more efficient, productive and – most importantly – happy. I’m under no illusion: with leadership comes stress. You may have heard of mindfulness. As a leader, mindfulness can help you a great deal. You’ll let go of stress.

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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. For the sake of efficiency, we tend to make new decisions based upon old frames, memories, or associations.

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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

Other managers see parcelling out information on a need-to-know basis as an operational maxim, important to maintaining efficiency. Some executives feel an obligation to put a positive spin on negative events out of loyalty to the organization.