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We pour a lot of our energy into work, yet the workplace can be a source of great stress as well as satisfaction. Even a moment of mindfulness and awareness can make work a better experience.

Hot-shot geeks at the world’s leading information company are taking a ground-breaking course called Search inside Yourself. As Barry Boyce reports, it’s a new model for teaching mindfulness and emotional intelligence, and its creator is thinking big.

We may not be generals, presidents or CEO’s, but conflict is still an inescapable part of our lives. The Art of War, says James Gimian, teaches us the profound art of “taking whole,” the victory that everyone shares in.

Fred Kofman, a leading organizational theorist, and author of Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values argues that the essential spirit of business is not greed or self-advancement but compassion, even love.

Do we divide our world up into pieces because we are afraid to explore its web-like nature? Margaret Wheatley, author of Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future, examines our ways of viewing the world and how to thrive in a world of interconnectedness. 

Dr. Ellen Langer wants to see less mindlessness and more mindfulness in our corporate leaders. Here she discusses how mindfulness can dramatically change the quality of leadership and improve the productivity of those being led.