Buddhist Meditation: A Management Skill?

Interesting NPR Story This Morning: "Buddhist Meditation: A Management Skill?"

September 13, 2012

"A handful of executive MBA programs around the country — from Harvard to Michigan's Ross School of Business — are teaching students Buddhist meditation techniques. It's not necessarily about teaching spirituality, but focus. There's no way to quantify whether learning how to be centered during a stressful business meeting is balancing the bottom lines at companies. But students say slowing down does help them be more effective."

Listen to the 4-minute story: click here.

The blurb says "it's not necessarily about teaching spirituality" -- OK, but is it contingently about teaching spirituality? That is, it might, in fact, be about teaching spirituality even if it isn't necessarily about teaching spirituality. In my view, if it's about focus and being centered, then it is about spirituality.