Key Points for Leadership Performance

Bob Brown, with 20 years of marketing and management experience for Fortune 500 companies, serves as Executive Director of the Center for Leadership Performance at Maharishi University of Management. He spoke at a national conference on the Transcendental Meditation program in the workplace where he detailed the value of the Transcendental Meditation program for developing effective leaders in a company or business.

“I want to cover three points,” said Brown. “The first is, what do you mean by leadership, and how can the Transcendental Meditation program claim a mantel for a leadership program when there are so many others out there? The second is, I’m asked all the time: ‘Am I going to lose my competitive ability if I’m doing something passive like meditating?’ And third, what can you expect when you implement TM in your business?”

To address his first point, Brown said that the most effective business leaders work behind the scenes, on the level that underlies a business or company. “That’s similar to the way the Transcendental Meditation program can work in your business,” Brown says. “It’s working with the platform behind the activity that people do in business, and that’s why it’s successful.”

Second, Brown said that the TM technique is not something that makes leaders lose their competitive edge. In fact, the opposite happens when people practice the technique. “TM is designed for people in the active world. It’s very effective that way. When you practice this technique, you’re diving in twice a day for 20 minutes. You get that intense rest, and your nervous system throws off the reasons why negative aspects happen., Suddenly you find that you’re much more able to intensify what it is that you’re doing and be able to do it with more energy and drive.”

To address his third point, Brown said that when implementing the Transcendental Meditation program in your company, you can expect concrete results immediately. “What we find with TM is that when people spend that 20 minutes gaining deep rest, they’re able to gain perspective on problems and challenges. So suddenly their innovation and problem solving levels shoot up. They have that platform for activity that they’re establishing deep within themselves. And this gives that perspective.”

To summarize, Brown said that both the individual and the company benefit from the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. “You’re not so caught up in the activity; you’re not overshadowed with what’s going on. So, it’s a wonderful practice for the individual, but it’s also collectively wonderful for an organization.”