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Aug 13, 2007
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
CEOs Turn to Meditation
The crowd of Harvard Business School alums who gathered at their reunion to hear networking expert Keith Ferrazzi speak earlier this summer might have expected to pick up strategies on how to work a room, remember people's names, or identify mentors. But tactical skills, it turns out, aren't what turned Ferrazzi into a bestselling author or sought-after speaker. Instead Ferrazzi let his fellow alums in on a little secret. The most effective path he’s found to connecting? Meditation. Exercise and prayer work too, he said, but meditation has been so effective that he now spends ten days every year at a silent meditation retreat. In other words, the man whose latest book is "Never Eat Alone" credits much of his success to alone time.