Ongoing projects
Dr. Liz King is currently exploring the role of mindfulness in decision-making, team performance, and organisational wisdom. Through ongoing research, she aims to develop reliable ways to measure these concepts and better understand their impact in real-world settings.
This project explores what mindfulness can offer boards of directors striving to navigate their extensive responsibilities skillfully. A robust mindfulness diagnostic can be used to guide directors and boards in how to practice individual and collective mindfulness that will foster wise decision-making.
Mindfulness allows directors to understand the inherent uncertainties, ambiguities, and contradictions between goals and the means for their attainment along with the inconsistencies between narrow institutional interests, economic imperatives, and social/ecological concerns and objectives.
In an era of global uncertainty, understanding how teams effectively navigate risk is crucial. This study explores team mindfulness—how groups maintain awareness and non-judgmental processing during high-pressure situations—through an ethnographic study of an elite ocean race. By analyzing real-time interactions, it contributes to both empirical research on team mindfulness and theoretical insights into decision-making in fast-paced, high-risk environments.
Organisational wisdom research requires academic and commercial organisation partnership to validate a wisdom assessment tool applicable in the real-world. This will enable future research to:
- Assess impact of wise organisations; and
- lucidating mechanism to cultivate wise organisations.
Wise Organizational Cultures could unlock human capital because current evidence suggests that wise organisations result in associates experiencing:
- Greater degree of accountability to work-related tasks;
- Greater genuine team collaboration; and
- Greater physical and mental well-being.
Mindfulness vs Mindlessness in Governance
In the challenging landscape of corporate governance, mindfulness emerges as a pivotal tool for effective, ethical, and sustainable decision-making. The stark contrast between the potential benefits of mindfulness and the dangers of mindlessness underscores the imperative for boards to foster a culture of awareness, focus, and consideration.
Read Dr Elizabeth King’s influential book, Buddha in Pinstripes: A Model for Leadership in Uncertainty
How to integrate personal performance, business profit and societal progress while preparing for disruption.
Based on many years of study and extensive experience at senior levels of international business, this book is designed for people who are leading in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world of business with a desire to generate profit whilst contributing to social purpose.
‘Buddha in Pinstripes’ provides both the theory and the practical steps that you and your organization’s leaders need to take to prepare your organisation for disruption, generate sustainable profit and social purpose, and allow your people to be peaceful.