How Meditation Can Improve Your Career

By Elise Solé: You know the basics to climbing the career ladder: Take initiative, work late, and don’t complain. But scientists have stumbled upon another powerful way to get ahead at the office: Meditation. According to a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, people make more decisive and rational business decisions after just … More How Meditation Can Improve Your Career

‘The rise of compassionate management (finally)’

By Bronwyn Fryer, first published by the Harvard Business Review: ‘Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy. A growing number of business conferences are focusing in on the topic of compassion at work. There’s the International Working Group on Compassionate Organizations. There’s the Changing Culture in … More ‘The rise of compassionate management (finally)’

Why sustainability professionals need to show more compassion

By Jo Confino, Guardian Sustainability professional ‘There appears to be a hidden dynamic operating among sustainability professionals that they are somehow superior to those they accuse of being stuck in the destructive paradigm of consumerism and profits maximisation. They believe they have seen beyond the limitations of classical economics and are therefore more visionary and … More Why sustainability professionals need to show more compassion