Emotional Excellence Boosts Performance

Abstract

Industries have made many strides to improve the performance of their processes. In chemical process industries, constrained model predictive control strategies safely operate complex manufacturing processes, while in all industries, data-driven approaches like six sigma, manage transactional processes efficiently. Still there is much scope for improving the performance across all areas.

This is because human beings are a part of both manufacturing and transactional processes, and there is a strong link of emotional excellence to the performance in the external world. Surveys indicate that workplace negativity is costing the US economy $1 trillion annually. Negativity and negative emotions are two sides of the same coin, and therefore, enhancing emotional excellence will improve the performance over and beyond what CMPC and six sigma can deliver. 

The pursuit of higher levels of emotional excellence is a well-posed scientific problem as emotions can be measured and the process with which to bring about positive changes from within for a higher level of emotional excellence is meditation. Industries will find that the benefits of meditation far outweigh the cost of allocating time for the practice during working hours.