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Possibilities, Purpose, Pitfalls: Insights From Introducing Mindfulness To, Amanda Sinclair Dec 2014

Possibilities, Purpose, Pitfalls: Insights From Introducing Mindfulness To, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

While mindfulness has been part of Buddhism and other religious and philosophical traditions for millennia, the last decades have seen adoption of mindfulness in clinical settings and more recently, in organisations and leadership. This article reports experiences introducing practices and concepts of mindfulness to managers and leaders across a wide range of sectors and organisational settings over the last ten years. I identify six particular insights that have emerged as important over that time: from how to define and explain mindfulness to leaders, through to ethical issues of the purposes to which mindfulness is put. Through discussion of these insights, …


On Knees, Breasts And Being Fully Human In Leadership, Amanda Sinclair Dec 2013

On Knees, Breasts And Being Fully Human In Leadership, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

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Teaching Leadership Critically To Mbas: Experiences From Heaven And Hell, Amanda Sinclair Jan 2007

Teaching Leadership Critically To Mbas: Experiences From Heaven And Hell, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

This research takes a frank look at the teaching of leadership. It compares the author’s positive and negative examples of teaching the same leadership material or curriculum and examines the various factors—teacher’s role, institutional factors, student mindset, learning techniques and circumstances—that influenced the outcome. It also provides a detailed explanation of effective ways of teaching leadership experientially and from a critical perspective —what works and what doesn’t.