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- Did you know that some of the world’s most successful corporations are using ancient mindfulness techniques to radically transform their workplace culture and performance?
- Have you ever wondered why top executives are trading traditional management tactics for meditation to gain a competitive edge in high-stress environments?
- What if you could harness a simple mental shift to not only reduce your daily stress but also improve the emotional well-being of everyone around you?
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Key Takeaways from Mindful Work
- Discover how major corporations like General Mills use mindfulness to combat the $300 billion annual cost of workplace stress.
- Understand how mindfulness physically reshapes your brain by strengthening gray matter and relaxing the amygdala to control fight-or-flight stress responses.
- Learn about Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and how observing your body's physical sensations helps you realize the impermanence of pain and stress.
- Find out why multitasking actually sabotages your productivity and how mindfulness trains your focus to efficiently tackle one task at a time.
- Master the ability to observe your thoughts without judgment, allowing you to step back from workplace challenges and handle them with objective clarity.
Mindful Work — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Mindfulness is already used in renowned companies.
Chapter 3: Mindfulness influences our behavior and our brains.
Chapter 4: The most widely adopted meditation training today is the program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Chapter 5: Practicing mindfulness improves your focus.
Chapter 6: Being mindful fosters compassion.
Chapter 7: Mindful companies build social responsibility.
Chapter 8: Mindful leadership embodies all the traits of a great leader.
Chapter 9: There is more to mindfulness than simply pursuing trends and making money from it.
Mindful Work Summary & Overview
Mindful Work (2015) provides an introduction to why and how mindfulness is practiced in the West today, on an individual, as well as professional level. Using examples from well-known companies, it explains the benefits that mindfulness can offer you, the people around you and the environment.
Who Should Listen to Mindful Work?
- Anyone working in a stressful environment
- Executives who want to be better leaders and establish a more compassionate company culture
- Anyone seeking more focus, emotional strength and kindness for themselves and others
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