A study that proves how meditation can change your brain has been done in an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program at the University of Massachusetts Centre for Mindfulness. Participants were asked to attend weekly meetings to practice mindfulness meditation, focus on non-judgemental awareness, and listen to audio recordings of guided meditation practice. An increase in grey-matter [...]
Are you taking responsibility for your own success? Can you make the hard calls? In the business world today we inevitably deal with difficult decisions all the time. A leaders’ inability to make the hard calls can dilute his or her credibility to such an extent that it could be detrimental to the success in [...]
What you put out into the world is precisely what you get back. Not even “kinda, you might get it back”– no, it’s exactly what you get back. Using his guitar and a simple song that repeated the Arabic word for “sweetheart,” Michael Franti created a bridge between cultures that overcame language barriers and mistrust. [...]
Kazimierz Gozdz, a partner at Generon International talks about four stages of leadership and organisational development. “Stage One Leaders are fundamentally self-serving, and entirely profit oriented. Stage Two Leaders master managerial and leadership norms and ethics of the day. They follow business practices more or less blindly regardless of their impact on society or the [...]
Creating the future of business does not only focus on profitability anymore, but also on developing a new generation of leaders whose objectives include human development. We can simply not do business anymore without including the triple ‘P’ – people, planet and profit. By using Daniel Goleman’s model on Emotional Quotient, smartRevolution designed a workshop aimed at leadership to [...]
