Australian Newspaper The Age Features Our Approach to Mindful Emailing

Australian newspaper The Age has run an online feature called Ignoring the inbox - a new morning mantra, featuring Rasmus Hougaard's advice on mindful emailing.

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Channel Asia Interview Jacqueline Carter about Mindfulness

As part of a Channel News Asia's Breakfast Television special on working smart and work-life balance in Singapore, TPP's Senior Trainer Jacqueline Carter talks about Corporate-Based Mindfulness Training. We can train ourselves to become deeply focused, fully present, high-performing and at ease, even in the midst of busy work life.

Mindfulness ensures focus at Carlsberg IT

Børsen newspaper reports on a study by Jochen Reb of Carlsberg IT's recent Corporate-Based Mindfulness Training programme. Employees have experienced a significant decrease in emotional exhaustion and Carlsberg’s CIO Kenneth Egelund Schmidt, is very satisfied with the initial results of the program.

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Training the Mind to Enhance Work & Life

Writing in the April 2012 issue of Malaysian Business, Rasmus Hougaard outlines the case for mindfulness training as a tool to enhance focus, efficiency and work-life balance for leaders and employees.

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Carlsberg IT abandons multitasking for mindfulness instead

Børsen newspaper ran a second article on The Potential Project's Corporate-Based Mindfulness Program in Carlsberg IT, this one focusing on how the organisation is abandoning the time- and energy-wasting habit of multitasking.

While multitasking increases stress and hinders productivity, creativity and positive affect, mindfulness does precisely the opposite.

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Developing Global Leaders

This article by Thomas Menkhoff was published in the Business Times, Singapore's only daily business broadsheet, on April 25 2012. Menkhoff queries the traditional attributes of 'Asian' business leadership and identifies mindfulness as a key quality of effective leadership that should be cultivated to enrich the development of global leaders.

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Mindfulness and Energy Management

Potential Project Senior Trainer Chin Lai Meng has written an article on Mindfulness and Energy Management which was recently published in the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce & Industry magazine.

Leaders and decision-makers need to sustain a high level of energy to handle the demands that the modern working environment makes on our attention. Mindfulness as a practice can conserve our energy so that this vital resource can be managed and sustained. Lai Meng's article outlines scientific research into mindfulness as energy management and describes how mindfulness can be applied as a workplace practice.

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Børsen Newspaper on Mindfulness in Carlsberg

Danish business newspaper Børsen has published two articles on mindfulness and The Potential Project's upcoming CBMT programme with Carlsberg. In addition to some key facts about mindfulness, the articles feature commentaries from Carlsberg’s CIO Kenneth Egelund Schmidt and from Jochen Reb, assistant professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at Singapore Management University.

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Interview with Jeremy Hunter of the Peter Drucker School of Management

Potential Project Senior Trainer Martin Ström interviewed Jeremy Hunter, an Assistant Professor of Practice from the Peter Drucker School of Management who has taught mindfulness to executives for more than a decade. Jeremy shared the story of how he came to teach mindfulness, his thoughts on how mindfulness is received in the workplace, and what role mindfulness can play in the modern business world.

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Developing Mindful Leaders at Genentech

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Polly Labarre asks why off-the-shelf leadership development solutions so often fail to bring about lasting and meaningful change. What if cultivating one's inner environment was at the centre of the leadership agenda? Biotechnology giant Genentech is her case study in this article, "Developing Mindful Leaders."

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