{"id":198,"date":"2013-11-17T02:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-11-18T02:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T02:36:34","slug":"the-economist-reports-on-mindfulness-meditation-and-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/2013\/11\/17\/the-economist-reports-on-mindfulness-meditation-and-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist Reports on Mindfulness, Meditation, and Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked up the November 16-22, 2013, issue of the <em>Economist<\/em> this evening and was tickled to see &#8220;Buddhism and business&#8221; mentioned on the cover.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Mindfulness Business--The Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21589841-western-capitalism-looking-inspiration-eastern-mysticism-mindfulness-business\">&#8220;The Mindfulness Business&#8221;<\/a> article provided a top-level survey of the lay of the mindfulness landscape in corporate America,\u00a0its author\u00a0conceding that meditation\u00a0practice might actually be helpful. He did also point to how capitalism might coopt and even subvert what meditation and mindfulness are about in an effort to sell a new and better you. This is an edge I live on upon which I live\u00a0as I bring meditation into the business world: how to authentically promote its benefits without overselling it, commoditizing it, branding it, or watering it down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked up the November 16-22, 2013, issue of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-benefits","category-leaders-companies-that-practice","category-scientific-research","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightadmissions.com\/conscious_leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}