Good Habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
by Harvard Business Review, James Clear, Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Whitney Johnson
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Ten Minutes a Day Can Change the Way You React
By Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Gitte Dybkjaer
Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach: mindfulness.
Having trained thousands of leaders in this ancient practice, we’ve seen over and over again that a diligent approach to mindfulness can help people create a one-second mental space between an event or stimulus and their response to it. One second may not sound like a lot, but it can be the difference between making a rushed decision that leads to failure and reaching a thoughtful conclusion that leads to increased performance. ...