Drawing on cutting-edge research along with practical findings, this landmark book on the science of attention reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers, and urges readers to pay attention to what matters to them most. 200,000 first printing.

• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can’t shake?
• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?
• Do you ever wonder why you can’t stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?
• Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?

What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn’t mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows you how to focus your attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of your brain.

An audiobook as inspiring as it is informative, as practical as it is profound, Mindsight offers exciting new proof that we aren’t hardwired to behave in certain ways but instead have the ability to harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that will be life-transforming.

With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.

Meng’s job is to teach Google’s best and brightest how to apply mindfulness techniques in the office and beyond; now, readers everywhere can get insider access to one of the most sought after classes in the country, a course in health, happiness and creativity that is improving the livelihood and productivity of those responsible for one of the most successful businesses in the world.

With forewords by Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, renowned mindfulness expert and author of Coming To Our Senses, Meng’s Search Inside Yourself is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential.

What's the most important piece of your child's educational experience? If you think it's math, science, or reading, you might be overlooking an essential element: the capacity known as inner resilience. InBuilding Emotional Intelligence, Linda Lantieri presents a breakthrough guide to help children respond to and rebound from the challenges unique to our times.

For educators, counselors, parents, and caregivers, this book offers practical techniques proven to help children increase self-esteem, improve concentration and awareness, and enhance empathy and communication. Step by step, children will learn how to quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and manage their emotions more skillfully. This powerful guide is arranged according to age group and complemented by spoken-word exercises presented by bestselling author Daniel Goleman.

The greatest challenge of leadership in our time is building a culture of purpose. The best minds of our time are looking not just for jobs, but for meaning. In order to attract the top talent that is necessary to thrive in a turbulent world, leaders must create organizations that are deeply invested in the long-term success of our planet, so that the most passionate hearts and creative intellects will want to work there—because there’s no place they’d rather be. What must leaders do to meet this challenge?

The powerful solution for building a culture of purpose is sustainability. In casual parlance, sustainability has become synonymous with “green,” but the causes of environmentalism are not fully expressive of how sustainability affects leaders and organizations today. Sustainability, at its highest level, is a way of doing business contingent on attracting and retaining the best, smartest people to help you spot and navigate challenges and opportunities that may only faintly visible today.

A Culture of Purpose offers concrete, actionable insights on what it takes to create this kind of high-level sustainability across an organization, today and into the future. Grounded in exclusive case studies built around in-depth interviews with C-suite sustainability leaders at companies including Chrysler, Unilever, TNT, Walmart, Bloomberg, and more, Christoph Lueneburger offers specific step-by-step advice for meeting this challenge. Lueneburger’s model guides leaders through a clear three phase process, providing a clear roadmap for leaders to accomplish the following goals:

• Tap and Nurture Your Current Corporate Strengths: How to recognize and cultivate the skills and competencies of your current talent so that you bring the right people into leadership roles and develop your sphere of immediate influence
• Hire the Right Team: How to identify the traits in potential new hires, regardless of level and function, so that they will grow in the organization —and how to ask the right questions during the hiring process
• Craft Your Culture: How to shape the openness, energy, and resilience that will embody strong values across the organization

Many books have described the "what" of sustainability, but this is the first to reveal the "who." Lueneburger invites readers to recognize that sustainability is not an ideological mindset, but a cultural trait of a resilient business. For leaders ready to embrace the challenge, A Culture of Purpose is an education, a revelation, and an invitation to the next generation of success.

L'attenzione è una risorsa mentale sottile, sfuggente, invisibile quasi, e per questo viene generalmente poco considerata. Eppure riveste un'importanza enorme rispetto al modo in cui affrontiamo la vita: i suoi effetti, come hanno spiegato in questi ultimi anni le neuroscienze, si fanno sentire nella maggior parte delle cose che facciamo, soprattutto oggi, assediati come siamo da una marea di dati e stimoli difficili da gestire. In questo nuovo studio Daniel Goleman esamina il ruolo centrale dell'attenzione nei diversi ambiti della nostra vita e i benefici che possiamo ricavare dal suo rafforzamento: indicando le strategie più efficaci per combinare concentrazione, empatia e autocontrollo, l'autore spiega come muoversi tra tensioni, distrazioni e obiettivi che riempiono le nostre giornate e trovare il giusto equilibrio capace di lasciar spazio sia alla produttività sia alla creatività.

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.

Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.

Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not.

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.

Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.

Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not.

Meditation has developed from a New Age novelty into a powerful tool for alleviating suffering in the modern world. The book shares profound insights on meditation and the mind from the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and reveals some of the very latest scientific evidence showing meditation's potential to benefit a wide range of people in surprising ways.

Once a symbol of the counterculture, meditation is now a household word, routinely discussed in the media, used by the advertising industry to promote all kinds of products and lifestyle choices, and practiced in its various forms—both spiritual and secular—by millions of people across the planet.

Ask the pioneering contributors to this book where they think all of this will lead, and they describe a not-too-distant future in which meditation is practiced as a matter of course in schools, hospitals, hospices, retirement homes, offices, jails, and households around the world—not in the name of any particular religion or belief system, but simply because it is good for us. The one who put meditation on the map 2,500 years ago, the Buddha himself, would no doubt be very happy indeed.

Contributors:

• Dr. Frédéric Rosenfeld—The Benefits of Meditation: A Scientific Reality
• Sogyal Rinpoche—The Buddhist Approach to Understanding the Mind and Meditation
• Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn—Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Medicine and Psychiatry
• Dr. Clifford Saron—Training the Mind: The Shamatha Project
• Dr. Sara Lazar—Meditation and Neuroscience
• Dr. Erika Rosenberg—Meditation and Emotion
• Dr Lucio Bizzini—Therapeutic Applications of Meditation (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy)
• Dr. Edel Maex—Therapeutic Applications of Meditation (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
• Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche—Meditation Methods in the Buddhist Tradition
• Rosamund Oliver—Being Present When We Care
• Ursula Bates—Mindfulness in the Public Health Service in Ireland
• Dr. Cathy Blanc—Meditation as a Means of Taking Care

In Transparency, the authors–a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership–look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of "transparency"–which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and the social sector as well.

Together Bennis, Goleman, and O'Toole explore why the containment of truth is the dearest held value of far too many organizations and suggest practical ways that organizations, their leaders, their members, and their boards can achieve openness. After years of dedicating themselves to research and theory, at first separately, and now jointly, these three leadership giants reveal the multifaceted importance of candor and show what promotes transparency and what hinders it. They describe how leaders often stymie the flow of information and the structural impediments that keep information from getting where it needs to go. This vital resource is written for any organization–business, government, and nonprofit–that must achieve a culture of candor, truth, and transparency.

Non ci sono più i leader di una volta. Pessima notizia? No, forse è meglio così. Ora che il concetto di intelligenza emotiva è entrato a pieno diritto nella nostra società, anche la vecchia e logora concezione della leadership basata sul potere e sull'autorità è stata definitivamente scalzata. Perché non bastano più l'attitudine al comando e le competenze tecniche per ottenere risultati, far quadrare i bilanci aziendali, salvare imprese e organizzazioni dalla bancarotta. Occorre essere in grado di mobilitare le energie migliori del proprio gruppo di lavoro, sapere giocare sulle motivazioni profonde di ognuno e allo stesso tempo analizzare lucidamente le proprie, esercitare la difficile arte dell'autocontrollo e della critica senza rinunciare all'empatia. In questo libro, Daniel Goleman ci spiega come essere capi migliori, più efficienti e più amati. Con un'ammonizione: adottare un unico stile di comando non è più sufficiente. La leadership del futuro è fluida: a seconda delle circostanze, dovremmo assumere le caratteristiche del capo visionario, di quello "allenatore", del federatore, del democratico, dell'incalzante e dell'autoritario. Perché sapere governare e gestire gli stati d'animo di chi lavora con noi è la chiave dell'armonia e del talento creativo che soli possono garantire lo sviluppo economico e culturale, nelle piccole comunità aziendali come nell'intera società.

A new integration of Goleman's emotional, social, and ecological intelligence

Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning by addressing today's most important ecological issues.

This book shares stories of pioneering educators, students, and activists engaged in issues related to food, water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans; and the streets of Oakland, California to the hills of South Carolina.

Ecoliterate marks a rich collaboration between Daniel Goleman and the Center for Ecoliteracy, an organization best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. For nearly twenty years the Center has worked with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries.

Ecoliterate also presents five core practices of emotionally and socially engaged ecoliteracy and a professional development guide.

Perché le persone più intelligenti nel senso tradizionale del termine non sono sempre quelle con cui lavoriamo più volentieri o con cui facciamo amicizia? Perché i bambini dotati ma provenienti da famiglie divise hanno difficoltà a scuola? Perché un ottimo amministratore delegato può riuscire un pessimo venditore? Perché, sostiene Goleman, l'intelligenza non è tutto. A caratterizzare il nostro comportamento e la nostra personalità è una miscela in cui il quoziente intellettivo si fonde con virtù quali l'autocontrollo, la pervicacia, l'empatia e l'attenzione agli altri: in breve, l'intelligenza emotiva.

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.

• Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can' t shake?
• Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?
• Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?
• Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?

What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.

Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients heal themselves from painful events in the past and liberate themselves from obstacles blocking their happiness in the present. And now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. Showing us mindsight in action, Dr. Siegel describes

• a sixteen-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who uses meditation and other techniques instead of drugs to calm the emotional storms that made him suicidal
• a woman paralyzed by anxiety, who uses mindsight to discover, in an unconscious memory of a childhood accident, the source of her dread
• a physician–the author himself–who pays attention to his intuition, which he experiences as a "vague, uneasy feeling in my belly, a gnawing restlessness in my heart and my gut," and tracks down a patient who could have gone deaf because of an inaccurately written prescription for an ear infection
• a twelve-year-old girl with OCD who learns a meditation that is "like watching myself from outside myself" and, using a form of internal dialogue, is able to stop the compulsive behaviors that have been tormenting her

These and many other extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help us master our emotions, heal our relationships, and reach our fullest potential.

A book as inspiring as it is informative, as practical as it is profound, Mindsight offers exciting new proof that we aren't hardwired to behave in certain ways, but instead have the ability to harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that will be life-transforming.


From the Hardcover edition.

The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence—revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves.

We buy “herbal” shampoos that contain industrial chemicals that can threaten our health or contaminate the environment. We dive down to see coral reefs, not realizing that an ingredient in our sunscreen feeds a virus that kills the reef. We wear organic cotton t-shirts, but don’t know that its dyes may put factory workers at risk for leukemia. In Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman reveals why so many of the products that are labeled green are a “mirage,” and illuminates our wild inconsistencies in response to the ecological crisis.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Goleman explains why we as shoppers are in the dark over the hidden impacts of the goods and services we make and consume, victims of a blackout of information about the detrimental effects of producing, shipping, packaging, distributing, and discarding the goods we buy.

But the balance of power is about to shift from seller to buyer, as a new generation of technologies informs us of the ecological facts about products at the point of purchase. This “radical transparency” will enable consumers to make smarter purchasing decisions, and will drive companies to rethink and reform their businesses, ushering in, Goleman claims, a new age of competitive advantage.

L'importanza di uno sviluppo ecosostenibile si sta facendo sempre più evidente. Abbattere le emissioni, utilizzare energie rinnovabili, acquisire abitudini a basso impatto sono priorità ormai entrate nell'agenda politica mondiale e nella coscienza comune. Tuttavia l'acquisto "verde" rimane, in molti casi, un miraggio: è più dannoso per l'ambiente stappare una bottiglia di vino arrivata dalla Francia via terra o dalla Spagna via mare? Su ogni oggetto che compriamo è nascosto un prezzo aggiuntivo: quello che pagano il pianeta e la nostra salute. Costi che ci è impossibile valutare correttamente, perché manca un'informazione trasparente e ancor più una nuova abitudine all'acquisto. Abbiamo bisogno di programmare la nostra mente per reagire ai problemi ambientali come davanti a un pericolo. Daniel Goleman, esperto di intelligenza e delle sue varietà, ci spiega come svilupparla verso il suo prossimo gradino evolutivo: la cura per l'ambiente. Il pensiero ecologico, da affinare come specie, è indispensabile per affrontare sfide troppo complesse per i singoli. Perché l'uomo è un animale con una nicchia ecologica particolare da salvaguardare: la Terra.

A UCLA brain scientist introduces the practice of "mindsight" as well as its potential for improving interpersonal relationships, explaining how challenges ranging from everyday stress to severe trauma can be treated by redirecting the flow of energy and information in one's brain in order to tap inherent insights and empathy. Read by the author. Simultaneous..

Come interagiscono cervello, sistema immunitario e stati emotivi? La meditazione può produrre effetti positivi sulla salute? Quali emozioni si accompagnano a una migliore qualità della vita? In che misura le condizioni psicofisiche di un individuo traggono beneficio da una crescita dell'autostima? In occasione degli incontri della terza Mind and Life Conference, svoltasi nel 1991 a Dharamsala, in India, alla presenza del Dalai Lama, illustri scienziati occidentali e maestri buddhisti hanno cercato di rispondere a questi e ad altri interrogativi di carattere scientifico ed etico. Daniel Goleman ha raccolto alcuni degli interventi e dei dibattiti più significativi della conferenza.

La politica della falsità è stata la causa del recente crollo dei colossi finanziari catapultandoci in una disastrosa crisi economica. È quindi ora di curare le nostre società dal malcostume della menzogna che le rende opache e vulnerabili: dall'innocua bugia detta al capo fino a quelle planetarie delle multinazionali, dal curriculum falsificato alla promessa elettorale disattesa. Viviamo un'epoca di cambiamenti rapidissimi che possono essere interpretati e affrontati soltanto grazie a un insieme di competenze diverse, e mettendo in comune le informazioni. Occorre quindi sostituire il modello classico della leadership autoritaria con una cooperazione tra alto e basso permeabile ai rinnovamenti e in grado di raccogliere gli input del controllo collettivo. Oggi basta un clic per smascherare chi bara: blog, quotidiani online, motori di ricerca sono le nuove piazze aperte alla denuncia e alla testimonianza di consumatori e cittadini a cui conviene esercitare quanto più possibile il diritto alla chiarezza. Ma in realtà anche leader e aziende possono trarre vantaggio dal dovere complementare che impone di diffondere i dati e giustificare le proprie scelte. Perché, come dimostrano i guru della consulenza aziendale Daniel Goleman, Warren Bennis e James O'Toole, la trasparenza non è sempre la scelta più facile, o più conveniente nel breve periodo ma è la chiave grazie a cui un leader, una società, un mercato possono recuperare la fiducia dei loro interlocutori.

Con la meditazione i monaci buddhisti riescono a raggiungere uno stato di serena felicità. E ci assicurano che è una condizione che tutti possono sperimentare. Ma come? Per rispondere a questa domanda un gruppo di psicologi, filosofi e neuroscienziati occidentali guidati da Daniel Goleman - il profeta della cosiddetta "intelligenza emotiva" - si è confrontato con il Dalai Lama. Dal loro incontro è scaturita una sola risposta: liberarsi dai "veleni della mente" (rabbia, desiderio, illusione) è la chiave delle felicità. Così se da un lato il Dalai Lama ci spiega come trasformare le emozioni negative in sentimenti positivi, dall'altro Goleman ci mostra, con rigorosi metodi scientifici, come la pratica della meditazione possa rimuovere le cause delle nostre peggiori pulsioni. Insieme i due autori ci invitano a gettare uno sguardo colmo di speranza sul lato più oscuro della nostra mente per renderlo limpido e luminoso.

Can your thoughts heal another person, even from across the globe? Can meditation create "superhuman" levels of perception? Do prayer and intention actually affect reality? A few decades ago, scientists would have dismissed such ideas as superstition. Today, a growing body of persuasive research has turned many scientific thinkers into believers in the power of spiritual practice. Measuring the Immeasurable brings together some of the most prominent and informed authorities on the new frontier where science and spirituality intersect, including: - Dr. Gary Small's (The Longevity Bible, Hyperion, 2007) new evidence on lifestyle changes that improve our brain function - Daniel Goleman (Social Intelligence, Bantam, 2007) on "the brain's melody" and our moment-to-moment perceptions - Gregg Braden (The Divine Matrix, Hay House, 2006) on how prayer and intention can affect events on a global scale - Bruce H. Lipton (The Biology of Belief, Mountain of Love, 2005) on the science of epigenetics, and how consciousness shapes our health, genetics, and evolution - Lynne McTaggart (The Field, Harper, 2008) with the latest results from her ongoing "Intention Experiment".