In The Mindful Leader, Michael Carroll focuses on ten key principles of mindfulness and how they apply to leading groups and organizations, addressing a range of topics along the way, including how to:

• heal the "toxic workplace," where anxiety and stress impede performance


• cultivate courage and confidence in the face of workplace difficulties


• pursue organizational goals without neglecting what's happening here and now


• lead with wisdom and gentleness, not just with ambition and power


• start a personal meditation practice to develop your innate leadership talents

Mindful Leader: Awakening Your Natural Management Skills through Mindfulness Meditation, Michael Carroll, Trumpeter, Paperback, 239 pages, $18.95

For over two decades Michael Carroll worked on Wall Street and in the publishing industry, holding executive positions at Shearson Lehman/AMEX, Paine Webber, Simon & Schuster, and the Walt Disney Company. As COO of Global Coaching Alliance, he consults with major corporations on bringing mindfulness into the workplace. Michael has been practicing meditation since 1976, graduated from Buddhist seminary in 1980, and is an authorized teacher in Kagyu-Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He has degrees in Philosophy and Theology from Dayton University and a master�s degree in Adult Education from Hunter College in New York. He has taught mindfulness-awareness meditation at the Harvard Business School, Omega Institute, Zen Mountain Monastery, Kripalu, and the Cape Cod Institute