It is easy to think of mindfulness as something for a retreat in the mountains rather than a software company with deadlines. Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google's early engineers, built Search Inside Yourself to bring it into the working day, on the reasoning that calmer and more self-aware people make better colleagues and better leaders. The question it raises for the rest of us is how much of our own working day happens on autopilot.
Stop, Breathe, Notice, Reflect and Respond. Google's Search Inside Yourself (SIY) internal course has already educated 1,000 of their employee's on mindfulness. The New York Time's takes us through some of the in's and out's of the approach. Eckhart Tolle would be proud.
Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath - NYTimes.com