Corporate Dysfunctions and Why ?
Corporate HR Meditation Program is designed to produce behavioral change and aims to increase the learning and contribution capacity of individuals, groups, collectives and organizations, for the purpose of improving their corresponding performance.
Organizational learning guru Prof. Peter Senge rhetorically asks, "How can a team of committed managers with individual IQs above 120 have a collective IQ of 63?" Prof. Dean R. Spitzer had pointed the following points for such reality, and the Calm Mind Meditation is exactly purported to resolve the following causes or issues:-
- Labeling. There are all kinds of habits of thought, perceptions, and emotions that cause our minds to distort reality. Our thinking tends to be subjective and self-serving, and we often tend to label things the way we want to see them, rather than the way they really are.
- Fixed Mindsets. Much of our idiosyncratic view of things is caused by our mindsets or mental models. According to Peter Schwartz, fixed mindsets are attitudes about every situation in our lives and every person we come across. In many cases, our mindsets have been built up, slowly, from childhood and may not have much to do with actual reality.
- Filtering. All people tend to unconsciously filter information, preferring good news, or information that confirms our preconceptions and self-image.
- Tunnel Vision. This is the tendency to focus on one thing at a time, to take things out of context (fragmentation), or to pay attention only to the most recent, the most familiar, the traditional, or the short-term.
- Justification. We all have a tendency to seek out information that confirms that we did indeed make the right decision. But if perchance we didn't make the right decision, our minds are very adept at dealing with the resulting cognitive dissonance through denial, defensiveness, or rationalization.
- Habit. All human beings are creatures of the past, and of habit.
- Confirmity: Another source of bias in associated with group dynamics, especially the pressures toward conformity to the will of the group.
The hurdles and the constraining factors pointed up by Profs. Peter Senge and Dean Spitzer can be resolved by undertaking a meditational journey that interconnects the behavioral manifestations and thoughts all the way to the root causes e.g. defilements, defilement tendencies, ignorance, and deluded attachments to all sorts of views, be them quantitative views, qualitative views, positivism, realism, phenomenology, critical theory, idealism, rationalism, empiricism, or pragmaticism. In a way we have tendency to be fooled by our own knowledge rooted in falsified stance. For further details on the philosophical nature of meditation, one can refer to one article on "Rediscovering an Ancient Approach to HRD" in the Meditation Article section of this website.



