Mindfulness at Work
A few years ago, my friend Erik Dane and I got excited about doing a study on the importance of mindfulness in the workplace. Erik, a professor at Rice's Jones School of Business, had done theoretical work on the type of roles and tasks that mindfulness would be most important for doing successfully. I had done other research on employee engagement, linking it to job outcomes like performance and intending to quit your job. We decided to investigate whether mindfulness or eng
