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In Part II, I re-presented Chad Meng Tan’s poignant questions “What if people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines?” I also suggested that despite well documented research findings, … Continue reading BECOMING A FULLY INTELLIGENT LEADER PART III … knowing versus being

COVID 19 represents the extreme and full embodiment of VUCA - #covidisvucapersonified In Part I, I shared with you extracts from Edward Hess’ insightful article ““The #1 Leadership Skill for the COVID 19 War – Inner Peace” on the leadership competencies required for leading in VUCA Times. I postured that VUCA times require the transition of … Continue reading BECOMING A FULLY INTELLIGENT LEADER PART II … knowing versus being

The Marshall Goldsmith quotation “The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership – it is practicing their understanding of leadership.” has always resonated with me and probably even moreso in this current period.  Edward Hess in his article “The #1 Leadership Skill for the COVID 19 War – Inner Peace”, describes the … Continue reading BECOMING A FULLY INTELLIGENT LEADER PART I … knowing versus being

“WHAT IF people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines?” – Chade-Meng Tan Our journey has taken us from Meditation as a contemplative practice, the neuroscientific findings on meditation, … Continue reading You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks – Transformation Through Contemplative Practice Part 5

“WHAT IF people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines?” – Chade-Meng Tan In journeying through Part 1 to Parts 2 and 3, we acknowledged Meditation as a contemplative … Continue reading You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks – Transformation Through Contemplative Practice Part 4 – Frameworks Coaching Process & Conversational Intelligence

“WHAT IF people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines?” – Chade-Meng Tan In Parts 1 and 2, I examined (i) what are contemplative practices, as defined by the … Continue reading You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks – Transformation Through Contemplative Practice Part 3 – Goleman and Google

WHAT IF people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines? Chade-Meng Tan In Part 1, I shared the Tree of Contemplative Practices, in which meditation was one branch of … Continue reading Part 2 – You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks – Transformation through Contemplative Practice

“WHAT IF people can use contemplative practices to help them succeed in life and at work? In other words, what if contemplative practices can be made beneficial both to people’s careers and to business bottom lines?” – Chade-Meng Tan For years we may have sabotaged ourselves and even rejected others, because of the refrain that … Continue reading You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks Part 1