Buddhist trained HR executive, Michael Carroll, author of the Mindful Leader: Awakening Your Natural Management Skills Through Mindfulness Meditation applies the key principles of mindfulness and how they could apply to leaders of organizations. He argues that mindfulness in leaders and their organizations can:
- Heal toxic workplace cultures where anxiety and stress inhibit creativity and performance;
- Cultivate confidence;
- Pursue organizational goals without promptness;
- Lead with wisdom, not only with ambition, relentless drive and power;
- Develop innate leadership strengths.