Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

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

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

Happy, calm children learn best

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

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

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