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...science, doctors are embracing meditation not because they think it's hip or cool but because scientific studies are beginning to show that it works, particularly for stress-related conditions. "For 30 years meditation research has told us that it works beautifully as an antidote to stress," says Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions, a conversation among the Dalai Lama and a group of neuroscientists. "But what's exciting about the new research is how meditation can train the mind and reshape the brain." Tests using the most sophisticated imaging techniques suggest that it can actually reset the brain, changing...
...Goleman were looking for a textbook example of emotionally intelligent leadership, he couldn't do better than former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City after Sept. 11. As important as what Giuliani said was how he said it. "When people were feeling threatened and anxious, he did everything he could to make you feel that someone was actually in control," Goleman told TIME. "He was in touch with his feelings--and our feelings...
...often in American business, that isn't the case. At one international hotel chain, workers told Yale researchers that interactions with management generated bad feelings 9 times out of 10. Most leaders have what Goleman calls "CEO disease"--they have no sense of how their moods affect the organization. One CEO of a European firm told Goleman: "I so often feel I'm not getting the truth. I can sense people are hiding information...
...anyone working in business, many of Goleman's observations seem obvious. And his five-step program for making yourself an emotionally intelligent leader sometimes reads as if it were gleaned from the self-help section of Barnes & Noble. Still, he makes a persuasive case that emotional leadership can be learned...
...these successful bosses recognized what Goleman considers an essential truth: "You don't leave emotions at the door when you enter the office, then pick them up again when you go home. If you think you can run rampant over people and it's not going to affect how well they can work, you're being naive." Now at least, the worst bosses, who are always looking for someone to blame, can't say they haven't been warned...