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How to Cultivate the Heart and Mind of the Leader

Lessons from over a Decade of Developing Mindful Leaders

Jeremy Hunter, PhD

Associate Professor of Practice

Founding Director,

Executive Mind Leadership Institute

Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management

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How to introduce

awareness practices

in a management

context without

arousing an immune

response?

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Functioning Society

Functioning Organization Management

© Jeremy Hunter 2016

“You cannot manage

other people

unless you manage

yourself first.”

Peter F. Drucker

The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons

on Management, Society and Economy,

2016.

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Functioning Society

Functioning Organization

Functioning Person

Management

Self-Management?

Cultivating the

Four Rigors

Somatic Rigor

Emotional Rigor

Intellectual Rigor

Perceptual Rigor

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Body Sensations

Rigorous engagement with experience

Emotions

Thoughts,

Beliefs

and

Stories

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Past Future

We experience life as a series of moments

Now

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Past Future

Investigating how am I experiencing this?

Now

What

emotions

are

arising?

What is

happening

with the

body?

What

stories

are

coming

up?

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Past Future

Investigating how am I experiencing this?

Now

Conscious

Choice

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Managing Reactivity

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Transforming

Perception

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Uncovering and

Dismantling Patterns

© Jeremy Hunter 2016

What’s going on?

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“Society needs a

return to spiritual

values—not to offset

the material but to

make it fully

productive.”

Landmarks of Tomorrow, 1959.

© Jeremy Hunter 2016