Meditation and Performance

1 · Alex Payne · Feb. 24, 2015, midnight
Our notion of knowledge work is approaching its sixth decade. Having exhausted management fads and novel office furniture arrangements, attention has now turned to meditation as the next performance enhancer for cerebral endeavors. Mindfulness meditation, a popular Buddhist-derived contemplative practice, has become a business buzzword over the past several years. You’ll find mindfulness heralded in The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The LA Times, Forbes and The HBR again and again and a...