There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.