Cultural intelligence and mindfulness: teaching MBAs in Iran

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

Developing Cultural Intelligence for Global Leadership Through Mindfulness

Understanding how businesses function in relation to cultural and societal influences is critical for today’s business leader who wants to interact competently across borders. However, developing and evaluating such competence is a challenge. One concept that provides a holistic conceptualization of intercultural competence is the notion of “mindfulness” or the ability to use reflection as a co...

Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness

Mindfulness in cultural context.

Mindfulness meditation and other techniques drawn from Buddhism have increasingly been integrated into forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. In much of this work, mindfulness is understood as a mode of awareness that is present-centered and nonevaluative. This form of awareness is assumed to have intrinsic value in promoting positive mental health and adaptation by interrupting discursive th...

Teaching Leadership Critically to MBAs: Experiences from Heaven and Hell

In 2004, after a year’s leave, I started teaching a new Masters of Business Administration (MBA) subject called ‘Leadership and Change’ in what I hoped was a more critical way. In this article I explore my experiences of launching two versions of this subject— one in a full-time MBA and one in an Executive MBA programme. I describe what I did and what happened, including the obstacles encounter...