TM Key to Leadership Performance
Ramani Ayer, Chairman and CEO of Hartford Financial Services and the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, spoke in Washington, D.C. this past spring about leadership performance and the Transcendental Meditation technique.
The Transcendental Meditation technique, a simple natural mental technique, which dissolves stress, enhances development of full mental potential and the growth of leadership qualities is the key for Mr. Ayer to maintaining the level of leadership performance in the world market.
“TM has certainly helped me raise my performance to cope with the stresses and strains of life. It has certainly given me a quality of equanimity through ups and downs,” said Mr. Ayer.
Leadership comes from within strong, powerful leaders who possess some essential attributes. Mr. Ayer explained that “leadership is an important asset, if it’s available to a corporation, leadership is something that could make a difference in high quality performance of the company, and today, investors expect leaders to really make a dramatic impact on the future of their company,”
Mr. Ayer explained “A leader must be capable of seeing the future, looking around the corner; a capacity to embrace bold, positive ideas; set very ambitious goals; a capacity to really understand in very harsh, real terms, what is going on at the ground level; what’s happening to his business; what are its strengths, what are its weaknesses, what are it’s opportunities and challenges.”
Finally, Mr. Ayer explained why it’s important for leaders to sustain the ability to cope with stresses and strains: “CEOs, today’s leaders, are confronted with challenges and opportunities, and challenges can get you down, at times, especially when they’re of a negative quality. As leaders, we have to sustain performance, no matter what the environment. And I believe very strongly that the use and practice of TM has certainly helped me maintain a very steady state of mind no matter what happens.”
The Transcendental Meditation technique, a simple natural mental technique, which dissolves stress, enhances development of full mental potential and the growth of leadership qualities is the key for Mr. Ayer to maintaining the level of leadership performance in the world market.
“TM has certainly helped me raise my performance to cope with the stresses and strains of life. It has certainly given me a quality of equanimity through ups and downs,” said Mr. Ayer.
Leadership comes from within strong, powerful leaders who possess some essential attributes. Mr. Ayer explained that “leadership is an important asset, if it’s available to a corporation, leadership is something that could make a difference in high quality performance of the company, and today, investors expect leaders to really make a dramatic impact on the future of their company,”
Mr. Ayer explained “A leader must be capable of seeing the future, looking around the corner; a capacity to embrace bold, positive ideas; set very ambitious goals; a capacity to really understand in very harsh, real terms, what is going on at the ground level; what’s happening to his business; what are its strengths, what are its weaknesses, what are it’s opportunities and challenges.”
Finally, Mr. Ayer explained why it’s important for leaders to sustain the ability to cope with stresses and strains: “CEOs, today’s leaders, are confronted with challenges and opportunities, and challenges can get you down, at times, especially when they’re of a negative quality. As leaders, we have to sustain performance, no matter what the environment. And I believe very strongly that the use and practice of TM has certainly helped me maintain a very steady state of mind no matter what happens.”
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