Mindful Work : : how Meditation is Changing Business From the Inside out
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For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies have built extensive programs to foster mindful practices among their workers. Gelles explains how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques. He shows that mindfulness lowers stress, increases mental focus, and alleviates depression among workers, with the added benefit of saving health care costs.
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A succinct rundown of the benefits of mindfulness submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 28, 2019, 6:01am David Gelles’s Mindful Work provides a notable report of the ever-increasing embracing of meditation-based mindfulness. Predictions: with the frenzy of activity and 'reactivity' that has entrenched the current way of life, mindfulness will continue to draw many mainstream practitioners.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780544227224
0544227220
SUBJECTS
Leadership -- Psychological aspects.
Meditation.
Mind and body.
Social responsibility of business.