The Power of Mindful Leadership
Presenter:
Pandit Dasa
Time:
23:18
Summary
This presentation is inspired by Gandhi's quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." This presentation will encourage the audience to reflect on how they can become better leaders in whatever leadership role they are in, whether personal or professional. It will address the importance of creating an environment where ego battles aren't driving the company down and where individuals are willing to put aside their own self-interest for the sake of the greater good. It encourages an environment where individuals are willing to appreciate the contributions of their co-workers instead of feeling threatened by them. A mindful leader is one who is able to provide constructive feedback that is balanced with a healthy dose of appreciation.
Transcript
Before we get into mindful leadership, I want to share a little bit of my journey with you and also help you and also help you kind of understand why I came to doing what I'm doing, which is talking about mindfulness and meditation, and how can help corporations and individuals as in general. So I grew up in Southern California for the most part. My parents came over with almost next to nothing. We had set up shop on Venice Beach, very simple and humble beginnings within about a seven year period, my parents established a multi million dollar jewelry business. I believe they worked seven days a week. I don't know if they really took a day off. They just couldn't afford to take a day off, and so it wasn't long before we were really living the American dream.
So this is the house that my dad built from ground up, actually, in seven years from having nothing, it was a house, six bedroom house, pool, jacuzzi, you need a waterfall. And my bedroom window, which was the one on the top right, I had a postcard view of all of downtown. La, so that was there for a little bit, but in the early 90s, my parents jewelry business caught on fire, and we literally lost everything. Yes, quite a shock. I was 21 my third year of college, my dad decides to explore other business opportunities, and he decides to go to post communist Bulgaria in 1992 right when it had come out of communism.