Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out, by David Gelles
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A New York Times reporter reveals what business leaders around the country are already discovering: Meditation may be the key to fostering a happier, more productive workplace. For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies, such as General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google, have built extensive programs to foster mindful practices among their workers. Mindful Work is the first book to explain how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques. As a business reporter for the New York Times who has also practiced meditation for two decades, David Gelles is uniquely qualified to chart the growing nexus between these two realms. As he proves, mindfulness lowers stress, increases mental focus, and alleviates depression among workers. He also offers real-world examples of how mindfulness has benefited companies that have adopted it — from the millions of dollars Aetna has saved in health-care costs to the ways Patagonia has combined leadership in its market with a pervasively mindful outlook. Gelles's revelatory book picks up where bestsellers like Thrive and 10% Happier leave off, by detailing how mindfulness works in and for the companies that adopt it, revealing the profound impact mindfulness can have on the world of work. Mindful Work goes beyond other books on the subject by providing evidence for the practical benefits of mindfulness and showing readers how to become more mindful themselves.
Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out, by David Gelles - Amazon Sales Rank: #481547 in Books
- Brand: Gelles, David
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.08" w x 6.00" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out, by David Gelles Review
“Brimming with insights and backed up with solid research, Mindful Work takes us to the front lines of a revolution that is transforming the business world.” —Arianna Huffington “Gelles has done a masterful job of capturing the 'mindfulness movement'. His candid analysis and his dialogue with people from all facets of this movement paint a wonderfully clear view of a potent proposition for living and working in better ways.” —Scott Kriens, Chairman, Juniper Networks, and Director, 1440 Foundation “In this compelling book, Gelles describes how apparent paradoxes can resolve into a business culture where taking a breath is part of making a buck.” —Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together “In this wise and revealing work, David Gelles explains how Eastern wisdom is transforming the Western workplace. Smart, hopeful and inspiring, this is a book with a wide reach and a clear focus.” —Mark Epstein, author of The Trauma of Everyday Life and Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective “A delightful, authoritative, and provocative guide to the new world of mindfulness at work. David Gelles covers the story from the inside out, giving readers exactly what they need to assess whether mindfulness is for them — and, if so, how to forge ahead. Give this book your full attention.” —Daniel Goleman, author of Focus and Emotional Intelligence “This stunning new book is by far the most insightful, practical guide to mindfulness and meditation. Gelles, who has deep experience with mindfulness, takes us inside leading companies like Google, General Mills, Aetna, and Patagonia to show how meditation is transforming workplaces. Mindful Work could change your life.” —Bill George, Harvard Business School, former CEO of Medtronic, and author of True North “Gelles deftly shows the power of mindfulness to change individuals, businesses and our world for the better. Mindfulness is a practice we need to embrace, and we cannot be afraid to follow this path.” —Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce “Mindfulness in the workplace is a real trend and few are as well equipped to explain it as David Gelles. He expertly conveys how companies incorporate mindfulness principles into their cultures and offers practical tips to managers on how to do the same.” —Reid Hoffman, co/founder & chairman, LinkedIn and co-author of The Alliance “This carefully researched, heartfully written, and delightfully readable book tells one of the most interesting true stories of our time: the fascinating and sometimes messy coming together of the wisdom world and the corporate world.” —Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google, author of Search Inside Yourself “Readers curious about the benefits of mindfulness at work or in their personal lives will appreciate this book.” —Booklist "Intriguing, timely, and enjoyable new book, a fascinating account of the increasing adoption of these ancient oriental disciplines by western businesses as means of improving corporate efficiency, reducing employee stress, and, directly or indirectly, boosting the bottom line." —Financial Times
From the Inside Flap A New York Times reporter reveals how meditation can be the key to fostering a happier, more productive workplace. Over the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies like General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google have fostered mindful practices among their employees from the factory floor to the executive suite. Mindful Work is the first book to explain how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques. As a business reporter for the New York Times who has also practiced meditation for fifteen years, David Gelles is uniquely qualified to chart the growing nexus between these two realms. As he proves, mindfulness lowers stress, increases mental focus, and alleviates depression among workers. He also offers real-world examples of how mindfulness has benefited the companies that have adopted it — from the millions of dollars Aetna has saved in health-care costs to the ways Patagonia has combined leadership in its market with a pervasively mindful outlook. Gelles’s revelatory book picks up where bestsellers like Thrive and 10% Happier leave off, by detailing how mindfulness works in and for the companies that adopt it, revealing the profound impact meditation can have on the world of work, and showing all of us how to become more mindful ourselves.
From the Back Cover “A delightful, authoritative, and provocative guide to the new world of mindfulness at work. David Gelles covers the story from the inside out, giving readers exactly what they need to assess whether mindfulness is for them — and, if so, how to forge ahead. Give this book your full attention.” — Daniel Goleman, author of Focus and Emotional Intelligence “Brimming with insights and backed up with solid research, Mindful Work takes us to the front lines of a revolution that is transforming the business world." — Arianna Huffington “Gelles has done a masterful job of capturing the ‘mindfulness movement’. His candid analysis and his dialogue with people from all facets of this movement paint a wonderfully clear view of a potent proposition for living and working in better ways." — Scott Kriens, chairman, Juniper Networks, and director, 1440 Foundation “In this compelling book, Gelles describes how apparent paradoxes can resolve into a business culture where taking a breath is part of making a buck.” — Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together “In this wise and revealing work, David Gelles explains how Eastern wisdom is transforming the Western workplace. Smart, hopeful and inspiring, this is a book with a wide reach and a clear focus.” —Mark Epstein, author of The Trauma of Everyday Life and Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective “This stunning new book isby far the most insightful, practical guide to mindfulness and meditation. Gelles, who has deep experience with mindfulness, takes us inside leading companies like Google, General Mills, Aetna, and Patagonia to show how meditation is transforming workplaces. Mindful Work could change your life.” — Bill George, Harvard Business School, former CEO of Medtronic, and author of True North
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29 of 35 people found the following review helpful. Not likely to be of much interest or value to people who actually know much of anything about meditation or mindfulness practice By Worddancer Redux I'm not sure who is the intended audience for this book. If you know little to nothing about meditation and mindfulness practice or about the decades of research (physically-focused or psychologically-centered) that outlines the benefits of meditation or mindfulness practice, then the book is likely to be of some use to you, and the revelation of the value of such practices in business may seem like important news.But if you know much of anything about meditation or mindfulness practice, the chances are good that you'll also know something about the decades of research into its mechanisms and its health (and spiritual) benefits. The question then becomes largely one of how interesting you find the author's autobiographical observations and anecdotes about conversations with great businessmen (and the occasional businesswoman). Since I have known about meditation and mindfulness practice and the research into their value for a long time, was not all really engaged by this man's journey of discovery, and don't generally regard the pronouncements of business VIPs as of much interest or relevance, I did not find much of value or interest in the book. I found it overlong, overwritten, and just not that much fun to read. But that's me; I can't say whether people with different attitudes, experiences, or interests would find the book more engaging and informative. I think not, but that could be more a reflection of my angle of vision than a judgment about the book.I do believe that people who are seriously interested in learning about and perhaps developing a meditation practice would do much better to read some of Zabat-Zinn's work than this book. FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING is a wonderful book, and one I've recommended and given as a gift for a long time. (It is now in a new edition; I haven't seen the new edition, but it can hardly be less good than the excellent previous editions.) If you read and like FCL, you might also like Z-Z's WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A Mindful book About Mindfulness By Kristin J. Johnson On pages 258-259 of this wonderful book you'll find a basic mindfulness meditation primer, so all the busy executives and employees looking to start somewhere will be able to take a mindful moment and meditate. Then, having put that conflict with a co-worker or unhappy customer or frazzled IT department in proper perspective, you might be able to find the space and time to read the rest of Mindful Work. Please READ THAT FIRST and read the rest of the book at your leisure. Preferably practice the basic mindfulness routine a few times.Once you get into Mindful Work, you will find it's not "McMindfulness"--yes, this is a chapter in the book, providing an excellent critique of the cultural critique of a mass mindfulness culture detached from the original tradition of "how the swans came to the lake" (Chapter 2) and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau--the original American zen masters. (You had to know the man who wrote WALDEN would be in line with Buddha and the dharma.) True mindful practice at work is not, as David Gelles argues (having established his meditation creds by saying he meditated under a body tree in Bodh Gaya, India), just a way to make employees compliant cogs in the corporate machine, as established by none other than master Thich Nhat Hanh, who once said, "Smiling is important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace." However, Gelles does argue that "as much as mindfulness is goes mainstream, the marketplace for information, education, and training on the topic is a disorganized, confusing and ineffective mess." Yes, even despite mindfulness apps and all the info on the Internet, and despite pioneers such as the late Steve Jobs (a mass Apple meditation at AppleFest in 1981), Janice Marturano of General Mills, Phil Jackson of the NBA, Laura Fried of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Chade-Meng Tan of Google, Evan Williams of Twitter, and Congressman Tim Ryan and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard--from the place we all wish mindfulness would take root, Capitol Hill. Yes, they're meditating on Capital Hill. Democrats and Republicans. Clearly, mindfulness is powerful, but it's still disorganized. Hmmm.Gelles' solution: A National Organization of Mindfulness (that would go global). The idea is stimulating.But how, you might ask, does meditation help me accomplish my to-do list, make my sales quotas, and achieve work-life balance? Gelles meticulously takes us through the benefits of meditation: "Less Stressed," "More Focused" (he persuasively recounts his own experience practicing mindfulness while with his family and having an apparent career crisis when a story he was writing for the FINANCIAL TIMES apparently got scooped--but as Buddha says, everything is impermanent, especially in the news cycle), "Compassionate," and "Socially Responsible."Gelles' case for mindfulness is (to me) meticulous, thoughtful, compassionate, seeing the big picture, focused (no extraneous or irrelevant stuff), and yes, socially responsible, especially in presenting all sides. One can clearly see Gelles' own mindfulness in this mindful book.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Mindfulness works not only in business, but in all aspects of your life. By Bob Feeser Mind fullness as opposed to mind emptiness whereby the mind is narrowed due to rage, or powerful emotions is what this book is all about. On a more timid level achieving the alpha state is something that everyone achieves naturally from time to time. It is the state of greatest problem solving ability. I was fortunate to have studied Dr. Wayne Dyer’s teachings and he taught me a form of meditation that I think everyone can relate to. Let's say you are angry, or afraid, tensed out etc. Instead of making important decisions in that state of mind, what you want to do is lie down, or you can do this sitting, I prefer lying down and resting my palms on my chest and simply let all of the thoughts go out of your mind. Don't argue with them, just kindly show them the door. It takes about 10 or 15 minutes for them to leave, but finally they do. There is a profound change that comes over you. You can arise with a clear mind. At the moment you achieve this you may even feel a jerk of your leg like something left. I, unlike the author have a spiritual orientation. Without getting off on a tangent, what occurs is that you arise and problems that you thought were problems are no longer important. You become aware of problems on a deeper level and the answers to those problems appear effortlessly. A feeling of peace and joy permeates your being. Knowing what you just realized will bring you the answers you really seek.So what does this book do? It spends a good deal of time establishing how mindfulness is permeating the workplace of some very notable corporations. I know many years ago MacDonald’s had a meditation room, and their executives were known to push themselves away from their desks when the onslaught of problems became unbearable, and to go and sit and meditate.This book starts out explaining what mindfulness and meditation looks like; albeit in a different form than the simple yet incredibly effective method I outlined above. This isn't too far removed from that. It requires you to focus on your breath using it as a tool to return to your center. The author then delves into the history of mindfulness with its beginnings in India as a spiritual practice. It has migrated to the US and has now broken into the mainstream.The book contains a lot of references to mainstream businesses using mindfulness to help them succeed. In this context is appears to be a dogma designed to improve the interpersonal workings of business in a broader sense. The net result is that companies in addition to achieving more success are actually moving in more altruistic ways other than profit to benefit their employees, the environment, and even health care of their workers.I think that this book has several benefits for its readers. One is that it thoroughly establishes in the readers mind that it is here to stay and is practiced by a large number of corporations. That way naysayers will not stomp on your new awareness. (It covers the naysayers as well in the book.) It also provides you with a basis on how to practice mindfulness itself. There are those whom I have read in the past in India well cultured in the art and practice of Yoga who have grown so accustomed to arriving in the alpha state that they can instantly call it upon themselves to achieve that state. It is as if they can click their fingers and arrive.I think meditation and its many benefits are something that everyone should grow familiar with. Instead of feeling like a leaf blowing in the wind, controlled by those, even those closest to you by them knowing how to pull your strings you can gain an insight into a private world that transcends the ordinary, providing you with a course of action that will not only help you to control your temporary moods, but also improve your life by not having to make decisions based on something as temporary as a mood. This book is a very good tool to have in your arsenal in order to familiarize yourself with the practice. Is it the end all for learning how to meditate? Not really but a very good treatise on how this discipline applies to the marketplace.
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