Mindless teams

In mindless teams, people work primarily from their assumption based expectations. They even go around basing their actions on their assumptions about the assumptions of others. Leaders impose all manner of expectations and corrective feedback based on assumptions about others. People deliver status reports based on their assumptions about what others want or need to know. People exclude others from conversations and efforts based on their assumptions about roles, interests and capabilities. 

In each scenario, the team moves into a more mindful space instead one instance of curiosity at a time.

Nimble teams are mindful teams

It would be easy to argue that for teams to transition from being slow to nimble teams it takes to transition to greater capacity for mindfulness in their work. Everything teams can do to grow mindfulness and mindfulness habits accelerates their capacity for defining good, engaging their goodness, saying aligned and agile, and being creative and innovative. New levels of performance only possible with new levels of mindfulness.

What's important here is to understand the distinction between mindfulness and meditation. Meditation is concentrated focus. When not talking about that here even though that has relevance and importance and usefulness to performance and interaction. Were talking about is mindfulness which has Harvard researcher Ellen Langer suggests noticing differences.

These are differences in time and space. Being curious about what's new but shifting and exchanging. This is mindfulness we could do this in every aspect of our work without extraordinary rituals or taking time away from that we need to get done.