Mindfulness

Ravi S. Kudesia

Chapter 2.18 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 173-176 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mindfulness refers both to a particular quality of cognition and to a set of practices that enact and stabilize that quality. As a quality of cognition, mindfulness is commonly and simplistically described as “being in the present”—that is, entailing heightened attention to ongoing events, which are flexibly interpreted and acted upon. This quality of cognition, in turn, is cultivated by social practices, particularly practices related to meditation and high-reliability organizing. Mindfulness is generative because its practices do not change what we think, but rather change how we think—impacting the very quality of the cognition we bring to other practices like strategizing. Mindfulness can specifically help strategy-as-practice scholars understand the cognitive processes through which strategies emerge within collectives, how this collective cognition is situated in social practices, and how training practices can develop this collective cognition in ways that benefit strategizing.

Keywords: Mindfulness; Metacognition; Attention; Meditation; Emergent strategy; Collective cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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