Mindfulness in open design-based thinking As Head of Business Transformation and Innovation in UK/Ireland at EY, Michael Von der Geest is at the forefront of the EY business transformation practice. He has over 25 years’ experience supporting clients in delivering complex multi-year technology-enabled change programmes. Leading by example, Michael practises and promotes Mindful Leadership in…
Category Archive for: Mindfulness
By Christian Greiser, Jan-Philipp Martini, Liane Stephan, and Chris Tamdjidi Does mindfulness foster an organisation’s collective intelligence? A recent study conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Awaris found a significant connection: 31 teams (totalling 196 people) that participated in a ten-week mindfulness programme showed an average increase of 13% in collective intelligence, as measured…
By Parham Antonio Vasaiely We have reached a pivotal moment in business life, where both the way we operate and the products we develop are going through a huge transformation. In fact, we will see more change in the next five years than we have experienced in the last 50 years. Some of the…
By Rasmus Hougaard During the summer of 2015, Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s CEO, announced that the global professional services company would reimagine its performance management system. The company found that after decades of serving its purpose, the system had become massively demotivating. Accenture’s global workforce had changed. Their people – and your people – are…
by Dr Joel and Michelle Levey As two of the first people in the world to offer Mindful Leadership and to develop Mindful Organisations, beginning in the 1970s, we have been privileged to witness the emergence of the modern mindfulness movement revolution in its many creative expressions and styles around the globe. Over the…
by Juliet Adams and Dr Tamara Russell With all the hype about mindfulness it’s hard to keep up with the reality. Is mindfulness at work turning into ‘soma’, the drug that kept everyone happy in Huxley’s Brave New World?Is 2018 the year that the ‘mindfulness boom’ goes bust?or are we at the stage of fine-tuning…
by Cristian Halaby Introduction In life and in business, prejudice is something that troubles decision-making and conditions the mind-set of individuals and communities. Creeds and collective thought processes solidify without knowing boundaries to the human mind-set, and therefore place a limit on the capacity of people and organisations to think ‘out of the box’and to…
By Armin Forstner and interview with Hannah Carter Owers This September, Universal Design Studio unveiled its first public architectural pavilion for the London Design Festival. This standalone project was designed in collaboration with London-based co-working company, The Office Group (TOG). The concept for On Repeat was born from the ability of visual pattern…
The need for developing new on-boarding strategies for Millennial Leaders. By Armin Forstner More and more organisations are hiring and promoting Millennials (Generation Y), those born after 1980, into leadership positions. This generation has a whole new set of expectations both from their leaders and for themselves as leaders. Leadership requirements have evolved from:…
By Dr Tamara Russell Introduction and Outline There has been a great deal of interest in the application of mindfulness at work. Numerous books, apps, and courses have entered the business sphere, based on the assumption that mindfulness is a helpful skill to develop. What is so special about an awareness that is present,…
