Inspiration and Information

Chief Medical Officers on emotional intelligence and leadership burnout.  Self awareness and self management are foundational to superior coping skills for chronic stress.

Workplace Productivity: The latest “sprint and recover” advice from Silicon Valley?  Take “time in”!  Physiologically, energetically and cognitively – monitor your busy-ness addiction to fuel quality output.

Comeback strategy with heart, where “fail better” means the ability to hold the rawness of vulnerability in your heart.  A sink or swim perspective from Pema Chodron. 

Assessing Mindfulness Training Effectiveness.  Some solid advice from Chief Learning Officer.  In addition to hypothesis on impact,  I’d suggest assessing corollary impact to existing business initiatives for leadership development, emotional intelligence and cultural strategy. 

Assess your capacity for focus with this handy tool from my friends at The Potential Project.  In collaboration with Harvard Business Review and in partnership with Accenture, managing the brain bank is becoming serious business. 

New research from Judson Brewer on mindfulness and compulsive behavior:  Cutting the link between conditioned cues of desired objects and the craving that leads to addictive behavior.  We all have our compulsions – mindfulness offers a way to reframe the inner dialogue and build flexibility into how you relate to your own desirous thoughts. 

Turning down the volume of the inner critic:  Mindfulness is useful way to address low self-esteem, without temporarily bolstering positive views of oneself,  supporting the development of a more secure form of high self-esteem.  

“We urgently need new, human-centered thinking—considering happiness, wellbeing, purpose and meaning”  Professor Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum.

More great content from my friends at Mindful.org – I enjoy both hardcopy and online. Here, 3 great breath practices to calm and focus the mind.

9 minutes from Becoming Wise:  Kristen Tippet interviews Brené Brown on our cultural allergy to vulnerability, and the connection between struggle and courage.