Mindful work - David Gelles

Big business often seems the reserve of ruthless money-grubbers desperately looking for a way to make their next buck. But a quiet revolution is reshaping the corporate world, as the world's most dynamic entrepreneurs and businesspeople are starting to change how a successful business is run. A new breed of mindful managers are using meditation, yoga and other Zen techniques to focus on feeling good while making money - and using the money to do good too. Materialism is out and mindfulness is in.Featuring insights from high-level managers at Fortune 500 companies through to Google employees and the Dalai Lama himself, Mindful Work is an inspirational guide to mindfulness based in the realities of running a successful business. Blending timeless insights and modern-day management theory, it charts the revolution sweeping through the world's fastest-growing companies and offers a programme for changing the way we work - a change that will make us not just wealthier, but healthier and happier too.

David Gelles is a business reporter for the New York Times and its business blog, DealBook, where he writes about mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance. He is also a longtime meditator and spent a formative half-year in India studying with Zen masters, Tibetan rinpoches and Burmese monks. Previously, David was a reporter for the Financial Times, where he wrote about technology and media and interviewed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff in prison.Follow @dgelles on Twitter

A delightful, authoritative and provocative guide to the new world of mindfulness at work. Give this book your full attention.
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

By far the most insightful, practical guide to mindfulness and meditation. Mindful Work could change your life.
Bill George, Harvard Business School Professor and author of True North

Brimming with insights and backed up with solid research, Mindful Work takes us to the front lines of a revolution that is transforming the business world
Arianna Huffington

Gelles has done a masterful job of capturing the 'mindfulness movement'. His candid analysis and his dialogue with people
from all facets of this movement paint a wonderfully clear view of a potent proposition for living and working in better ways
Scott Kriens, Chairman, Juniper Networks and Director of 1440 Foundation

In this compelling book, Gelles describes how apparent paradoxes can resolve into a business culture where taking a breath is part of making a buck
Sherry Turkle, author of 'Alone Together'

In this wise and revealing work, David Gelles explains how Eastern wisdom is transforming the Western workplace.
Smart, hopeful and inspiring, this is a book with a wide reach and a clear focus
Mark Epstein, author of 'The Trauma of Everyday Life' and 'Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective'

Gelles deftly shows the power of mindfulness to change individuals, businesses and our world for the better. Cultivating mindfulness is a practice that we need to embrace, and we cannot be afraid to follow this path.
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce

This carefully researched, heartfully written, and delightfully readable book tells one of the most interesting true stories of our time: the fascinating and sometimes messy coming together of the wisdom world and the corporate world.
Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google, and bestselling author of 'Search Inside Yourself'

An intriguing, timely, and enjoyable new book [and] a fascinating account of the increasing adoption of these ancient oriental disciplines by western businesses as means of improving corporate efficiency, reducing employee stress, and, directly or indirectly, boosting the bottom line. Gelles has both an initiate's appreciation of how meditation works, and a journalist's objectivity and ability to tell a story.
FT - Felix Martin