Mindfulness for Productivity

Have you heard this one? Probably not, because it's unimaginable. Why would mindfulness and productivity be hanging out? After all, mindfulness is about being in the present moment, living consciously and joyfully, paying attention on purpose. Productivity is about efficiency, continuous improvement, increasing output, doing more with less. At first glance, these two appear to be polar opposites. But look again. Mindfulness and productivity have one striking thing in common: They are focused on where and how time is spent. Consider this formula: Organizational productivity = output (value created)/Input (resources consumed) In the knowledge economy the key resource is leadership time. So we can simplify the formula even more: Productivity = value/time By this definition there are two primary ways of increasing productivity: 1) Increase the value created and/or 2) Decrease the time required to create that value. In 1693, William Penn said "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." If he were to witness today's corporate environment, he might observe that, despite staggering progress elsewhere, our relationship with time has not changed in the last 320 years. Case in point: We recently asked 12 executives of a large corporation two questions: Visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-cullinan/mindfulness_b_5976864.html for full article Visit leworldtour.com to attend Learning Extravaganza in KL and increase your productivity