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In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation.

The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention for itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. 197 Meta-awareness, Attention, Focus, Correction http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-197-1.png
Focus Almost any variety of meditation, in essence, retrains our habits of attention – particularly the routine default of a wandering mind. 198 Meditation, Habits, Attention, Training http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-198-1.png
Focus Enhanced executive function widens the gap between impulse and action, in part by building meta-awareness, the capacity to observe our mental processes… 199 Executives,Impulses, Action, Aswareness, Observations http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-199-1.png
Focus …data suggests mindfulness boosts both self-awareness and empathy. 200 Mindfulness, Self-awareness, Empathy http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-200-1.png
Focus Mindlessness, in the form of mind wandering, may be the single biggest waste of attention in the workplace. 202 Mindfulness, Attention http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202a-1.png
Focus Focus on our experience in the here and now… demands that we tune down the all-about-myself murmurs of mind stuff irrelevant to what’s going on right now. 202 Focus, Experience, Self-awareness http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202b-1.png
Focus Mindfulness develops our capacity to observe our moment-to-moment experience in an impartial, nonreactive manner. 202 Mindfulness, Capacity, Observations http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202c-1.png
Focus Building executive control helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt, or disappointment creates endless cascades of rumination. 202 Executives, Control, Disappointment, Rumination http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-202d-1.png
Focus Mindfulness lets us break the stream of thoughts that might otherwise lead to wallowing in misery, by changing our relationship to thought itself. 203 Mindfulness, Thinking, Relationships http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-203a-1.png
Focus …mindfulness practice strengthens focus, particularly executive control, working memory capacity, and ability to sustain attention. 203 Mindfulness, Practice, Focus, Executives, Control, Memory, Attention http://bizbookquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Focus-Pg-203b-1.png
Focus Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.”

Leadership itself hinges on effectively capturing and directing the collective attention.

People make their choices about where to focus based on their perception of what matters to leaders.

There’s a strong case that leaders need the full range of inner, other, and outer focus to excel – and that a weakness in any one of them can throw a leader off balance.

Leaders who inspire can articulate shared values that resonate with and motivate the group. These are the leaders people love to work with, who surface the vision that moves everyone.

Inspiring leadership demands attuning both to an inner emotional reality and to that of those we seek to inspire.

…a leader can be very smart but not necessarily have the focusing skills that come with emotional intelligence.

If [an] informal leader has strengths in empathy in…

The wider a leader’s repertoire of sytels, the more…