How Compassion at Work Ripples Out Into Communities
Compassionate practices, like open hiring, are the secret ingredient to Greyston Bakery’s $21 million success.
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Building Mindful Brands
Matthew Stinchcomb, vice president of values and impact at Etsy.com, talks about why mindfulness is a key element to the business.
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The Top 4 Skills of an Emotionally Intelligent Leader
Daniel Goleman, author of Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence shares a short list of competencies in The New York Times this week.
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Study: Female entrepreneurs more likely to meditate
Research by Baylor University in Waco, Texas reveals that 37 percent of female entrepreneurs practice meditation—almost 10 percent more than their male counterparts.
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Harvard students design independent study about meditation and successful people
Two Harvard Business School (HBS) students, Nikita Singhal and Suken Vakil, plan to study whether a focus on contemplative practices contributes to success in business.
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Meditators make more rational, less emotional business decisions
Imagine that you and a stranger are participating in a psychology study. The experimenter gives the stranger $20. “Divide this money between you and your partner,” the experimenter tells the stranger. “You can keep any amount for yourself, and give any amount to your partner. But your partner gets to…
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AOL’s Healthy Living Features Mindfulness
AOL/Huffington Post’s new Healthy Living pages launched today, with a category devoted to Mindfulness under its “Spirit” section. The other three categories in the section are Spiritual Development, Forgiveness, and Wisdom. Posts in the mindfulness section feature such writers as Susan Kaiser Greenland, Dan Goleman and Rick…
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Aetna Employees Being Mindful
The business world is catching on to the benefits of mindfulness, and Aetna’s now on board.
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