But when we listen empathically, our perception shifts. We move from staring at the objective world of things, figures, and facts into considering the story of a living being, a living system, and self. To do so, we have to activate and tune a special instrument: the open heart, that is, the empathic capacity to connect directly with another person

revolutions that had begun in this very spot. Since the 1970s the original Xerox PARC team has been considered one of the most productive research and development teams of all time.

Facing the abyss requires us to stop and look in the mirror, where we realize that the issues outside are a reflection of what is inside

Since its origins in 1979, MBSR has been used by many thousands of instructors in over thirty countries worldwide.

The only thing we can really control or shape is our interior response: how we show up when disruption hits.

my most important insight has been that there are two different sources of learning: learning from the experiences of the past and learning from the future as it emerges.

While it has been a common practice for social scientists and management scholars to borrow their methods and paradigms from natural sciences such as physics, I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced methodology for social sciences that integrates science (third-person view), social transfo

Facing the abyss requires us to stop and look in the mirror, where we realize that the issues outside are a reflection of what is inside us. We must therefore shift the inner place from which we operate.

The turbulent challenges of our time force all major institutions and systems to reinvent themselves. To do that, we must ask: Who are we? What are we here for? What do we want to bring forth together?