Meditation in The Corporate Boardroom
Research at Harvard Business School has concluded
that "meditation and intuition are the two most valuable
executive tools for the 21st century".
Imagine a senior management team or a board of
directors who are gathered together to make
several important decisions. On the table are
crucial matters that could change the course of
corporate life, or even make the different
between success and failure of the company.
As the chairperson lays out the agenda for the
meeting and begins to launch into a detailed
analysis of the issues at hand, a loud “buzz” is
heard in the room. The chairperson looks up from
her notes to see that virtually everyone in the
room is engaged in loud chatter, and no one is
really paying any attention to her at all. As soon
as she recovers from the shock of this surprise,
she loudly demands attention. The room goes
quiet. But after a few seconds, the buzz picks up
once again. Once again, the impatient demand
for attention is made. And once again, after a few
seconds, the buzz starts up again.
Now imagine this buzz, quiet, buzz scene going on
in the boardroom for two or three hours.
Unthinkable, you say. Just would not happen,
right? How could important decisions be made if
most of the people in the room were not really
paying attention and their minds were on
something else except for a few seconds of
intermittent focus?
Would the scene be more easily imagined as
possible and believable if everyone’s “internal
chatter” was somehow made externally audible?
Now, that VP of Marketing who is worried about
his son who just dropped out of college to take up
his true passion, pottery, could be heard calming
his wife, or himself, or raging at this son, off and
on, through the entire meeting. How about the
General Manager who cannot keep his mind off
that sweet young thing in merchandising who
keeps flirting with him - imagine what his inner
dialogue is all about. And then there's the CFO
who keeps rehearsing his upcoming meeting with
bankers scheduled for later that day.
At a time when focus, clarity of thought, and the
applied use of well-honed listening skills are
critical, most of the great minds in that room are
somewhere else, for the most of the meeting.
Maybe this is part of the reason that we read that
we only use a small percentage of our brain. Most
of us are rarely “in the moment” and attentive to
the present for more than brief periods of time.
Most of our time is spent reliving the past and
anticipating the future, trying to steer the ship of
our everyday lives in the right direction, or at
least in one that will avoid disaster.
Meditation is a proven and effective way of
quieting of the mind, and the relaxation and
stress management “techniques” that are at the
core of meditation practice enhance focus, clarity
of thought, and improve listening skills. When we
learn to use the simple tools of meditation, we
can consciously quiet the mind’s internal chatter.
In matters of goal achievement, meditation can
take us to “the heart of the matter”. With
meditation, we can tap a quiet pool of intuitive
wisdom that presents solutions and opportunities
that the chattering mind misses.
It may be some time before meditation makes it to
the mainstream of corporate planning
(although research at Harvard Business School
has concluded that "meditation and intuition are
the two most valuable executive tools for the 21st
century"), but it is quite certain that there are
visionaries in corporate life this very minute who
are seeking out-of-the-box methods of creative
and effective leadership.
Today, Executive meditation practitioners and
teachers are overcoming the old associated
images of “yogis in saffron robes” as the only
icons of meditation, and are complementing them
with the image of a clear-thinking corporate
executive who has mastered the use of creative
leadership tools for the 21st century.
Now, where are those elite corporate visionaries
who are ready to sign up their senior
management team for meditation and intuition
classes? If this resonates with you, call Jeff
Belyea on his direct line (cell phone) at
727-542-7117 to schedule a free introductory
presentation. For more information, click here
AMCElite or on link below.
return to home page
return to AMCElite
Research at Harvard Business School has concluded
that "meditation and intuition are the two most valuable
executive tools for the 21st century".
Imagine a senior management team or a board of
directors who are gathered together to make
several important decisions. On the table are
crucial matters that could change the course of
corporate life, or even make the different
between success and failure of the company.
As the chairperson lays out the agenda for the
meeting and begins to launch into a detailed
analysis of the issues at hand, a loud “buzz” is
heard in the room. The chairperson looks up from
her notes to see that virtually everyone in the
room is engaged in loud chatter, and no one is
really paying any attention to her at all. As soon
as she recovers from the shock of this surprise,
she loudly demands attention. The room goes
quiet. But after a few seconds, the buzz picks up
once again. Once again, the impatient demand
for attention is made. And once again, after a few
seconds, the buzz starts up again.
Now imagine this buzz, quiet, buzz scene going on
in the boardroom for two or three hours.
Unthinkable, you say. Just would not happen,
right? How could important decisions be made if
most of the people in the room were not really
paying attention and their minds were on
something else except for a few seconds of
intermittent focus?
Would the scene be more easily imagined as
possible and believable if everyone’s “internal
chatter” was somehow made externally audible?
Now, that VP of Marketing who is worried about
his son who just dropped out of college to take up
his true passion, pottery, could be heard calming
his wife, or himself, or raging at this son, off and
on, through the entire meeting. How about the
General Manager who cannot keep his mind off
that sweet young thing in merchandising who
keeps flirting with him - imagine what his inner
dialogue is all about. And then there's the CFO
who keeps rehearsing his upcoming meeting with
bankers scheduled for later that day.
At a time when focus, clarity of thought, and the
applied use of well-honed listening skills are
critical, most of the great minds in that room are
somewhere else, for the most of the meeting.
Maybe this is part of the reason that we read that
we only use a small percentage of our brain. Most
of us are rarely “in the moment” and attentive to
the present for more than brief periods of time.
Most of our time is spent reliving the past and
anticipating the future, trying to steer the ship of
our everyday lives in the right direction, or at
least in one that will avoid disaster.
Meditation is a proven and effective way of
quieting of the mind, and the relaxation and
stress management “techniques” that are at the
core of meditation practice enhance focus, clarity
of thought, and improve listening skills. When we
learn to use the simple tools of meditation, we
can consciously quiet the mind’s internal chatter.
In matters of goal achievement, meditation can
take us to “the heart of the matter”. With
meditation, we can tap a quiet pool of intuitive
wisdom that presents solutions and opportunities
that the chattering mind misses.
It may be some time before meditation makes it to
the mainstream of corporate planning
(although research at Harvard Business School
has concluded that "meditation and intuition are
the two most valuable executive tools for the 21st
century"), but it is quite certain that there are
visionaries in corporate life this very minute who
are seeking out-of-the-box methods of creative
and effective leadership.
Today, Executive meditation practitioners and
teachers are overcoming the old associated
images of “yogis in saffron robes” as the only
icons of meditation, and are complementing them
with the image of a clear-thinking corporate
executive who has mastered the use of creative
leadership tools for the 21st century.
Now, where are those elite corporate visionaries
who are ready to sign up their senior
management team for meditation and intuition
classes? If this resonates with you, call Jeff
Belyea on his direct line (cell phone) at
727-542-7117 to schedule a free introductory
presentation. For more information, click here
AMCElite or on link below.
return to home page
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