Mindful Work (Ebook)
How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out
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The inside story on how mindfulness is boosting leadership, reducing stress and improving health in the workplace
A mindful revolution is reshaping the workplace.
The world's most dynamic businesspeople are using mindfulness to become happier and more fulfilled at work - and more successful. In Mindful Work, New York Times business reporter David Gelles explains how mindful managers are using meditation, yoga and other mindfulness techniques to boost leadership, reduce stress and improve health.
Featuring insights from revitalised employees, high-level managers at global companies and meditation masters, Mindful Work is an inspirational guide to the upsurge in mindfulness among companies as diverse as Google, Facebook and General Mills. Blending timeless insights and modern-day management theory, Gelles explains the practical benefits of the mindfulness boom, and offers a programme for changing the way we work - a change that will make us less stressed, more focused and happier.
Mindful Work (Paperback)
How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out
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The inside story on how mindfulness is boosting leadership, reducing stress and improving health in the workplace
A mindful revolution is reshaping the workplace.
The world's most dynamic businesspeople are using mindfulness to become happier and more fulfilled at work - and more successful. In Mindful Work, New York Times business reporter David Gelles explains how mindful managers are using meditation, yoga and other mindfulness techniques to boost leadership, reduce stress and improve health.
Featuring insights from revitalised employees, high-level managers at global companies and meditation masters, Mindful Work is an inspirational guide to the upsurge in mindfulness among companies as diverse as Google, Facebook and General Mills. Blending timeless insights and modern-day management theory, Gelles explains the practical benefits of the mindfulness boom, and offers a programme for changing the way we work - a change that will make us less stressed, more focused and happier.
Reviews for Mindful Work
Financial Times
Arianna Huffington
Bill George, Harvard Business School Professor and author of True North
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
Scott Kriens, Chairman, Juniper Networks and Director of 1440 Foundation
Sherry Turkle, author of 'Alone Together'
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce
Mark Epstein, author of 'The Trauma of Everyday Life' and 'Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective'
Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google, and bestselling author of 'Search Inside Yourself'
An intriguing, timely, and enjoyable new book [and] a fascinating account of the increasing adoption of these ancient oriental disciplines by western businesses as means of improving corporate efficiency, reducing employee stress, and, directly or indirectly, boosting the bottom line.
Gelles has both an initiate's appreciation of how meditation works, and a journalist's objectivity and ability to tell a story.
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David Gelles
David Gelles is a business reporter for the New York Times and its business blog, DealBook, where he writes about mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance. He is also a longtime meditator and spent a formative half-year in India studying with Zen masters, Tibetan rinpoches and Burmese monks. Previously, David was a reporter for the Financial Times, where he wrote about technology and media and interviewed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff in prison.
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