As my friend stretched out his hand and Clinton took it, he yelled out his question. Clinton soon arrived and began walking along the barricade shaking hands. Of course, when he arrived, he faced a teeming, screaming crowd, but he maneuvered his way to the police barricade and waited. Once, a friend of mine decided to attend a local rally to see if he could get an important healthcare question answered by then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton.
Those around a mindful leader see and feel that presence.
MINDFUL MEANING FULL
It requires full and complete nonjudgmental attention in the present moment.
Leadership presence is a tangible quality. This work of cultivating our capacity to know ourselves can be difficult, but it is the difference between an auto-pilot existence and being there for your life.Ī mindful leader embodies leadership presence by cultivating focus, clarity, creativity, and compassion in the services of others. The single most important factor in being a successful leader is to “know oneself.” Not in some “new agey” way, but to truly understand enough about our mind, our reactivity, our “filters” to be able to use that information to make us more effective, more compassionate and more innovative. But as it applies to leaders, being mindful is less about paying attention to external elements, and more about paying attention to what is happening “inside.” What is Mindful Leadership? For example, one might be told to be mindful of the foreign traffic rules. It is often used as a warning about something that may be dangerous, or unexpected. The word “mindful” in everyday language is not new. Is there such a thing as “mindful leadership”? Can this training of the mind be an ally for the increasingly complex challenges of leading? And, what is “mindful leadership”?
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