Periods of great difficulty are always a great time to reflect on what service means to us and the ideas we may have accumulated about it that may need to be...

Ichi-go Ichi-e is a Japanese parable translating to One Encounter, One Opportunity. It’s become the slogan of the practice of tea ceremony, which for many As...

A new job or role might start out as a love affair. But so often after the first few months, it loses its lustre. We begin to feel deadened by the repetition...

Start paying close attention to how you serve, and you may notice things that you don’t like so much - like how little other people pay attention. It’s easy ...

Standing Orders for a Pandemic I spent my Vietnam war years on a nuclear fast attack sub, much of it under the Soviet fleet, or inside their territorial wate...

Expand Your Communication Skills Have you ever gone to eat somewhere and everything is “perfect”? The person serving you recommends a wine pairing with a sni...

Wait a minute. So the National Institutes of Health are calling chronic stress the global epidemic of the 21st century — and data from the American Institute...

Increasingly, there’s a gap between our good intentions for a positive culture… and that place where negativity, disengagement and conflict take root. It’s a...

Physical science is a continuum of breakthroughs that create new paradigms and possibilities. These advances enable new technologies, which enable new busine...

I'm just a simple, hard-working line manager — why should I care about mindfulness? — What’s in it for me? Well, the answer starts with the nature of mindful...

Organizational mindfulness is founded on the (fairly recent) scientific understanding that the outcomes of mindfulness are not a metaphysical construct, but ...

The financial collapse and recession have faded in the rear-view mirror. Markets are surging, companies are hiring, opportunities abound. So, why hasn’t ther...

Our understanding and acceptance of mindfulness is changing pretty quickly. From a consumer point of view, mindfulness is stepping up from “fad” status, to b...

Mindful Well-Being has Arrived The fact that mindfulness is a successful health and wellness intervention is generally known and accepted at this point. Earl...

More and more, I'm running into leadership teams who are purposely moving their organizations toward a culture of mindfulness. These aren’t marketing folks w...

I think we can all agree that Emotional Intelligence training strengthens our individuals and teams, improves the workplace, and creates the conditions for h...