Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

I don't really follow meditation hype. But my impression is that poor studies are cited as "proof" of meditation's benefits, findings that apply to advanced meditators are sometimes touted as accruing to beginners, and, occasionally, some benefits are simply imagined. This may be most true in the business world, where many companies are bringing in teachers who are a bit loose in their use of research as evidence for the usefulness of the method.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

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