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From Chaos to Coherence: Advancing Emotional and Organizational Intelligence Through Inner Quality Management (registered trademark here)

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When I say the science behind the HeartMath System of mental-emotional management is impeccable, I ought to know what I'm talking about. I spent thousands of dollars bringing expensive consultants in to look at the Institute of HeartMath and their products. As the director of an advanced research lab responsible for finding breakthrough technologies that would help take my then 25 Billion dollar company to the 100 Billion dollar mark, it was important to make sure HeartMath was legitimate and that the products or "tools" as they were called, worked.

An immanent and respected scientist I brought in to investigate the scientific methodology applied in the Institute of HeartMath's Research Labs not only gave them a glowing bill of health, but ended up becoming a member of HeartMath's scientific advisory board. An expert in behavioral psychology I tasked to investigate the claims that IQM could enhance employee performance is now involved directly with bringing HeartMath "tools" to sports figures he consults, including a PGA pro on the current tour who is using the HeartMath "tools" to help him improve and sustain his game. People from the corporation's "University," the training arm of the company I brought in to investigate the feasibility of the application of the tools, ended up selecting HeartMath training as the exclusive stress reduction and control program, replacing all other less effective forms for corporate employees. The division who's factory I used as a test-bed for our formal scientific study ended up offering the HeartMath tools to all its employees.

Anecdotally, the young golf pro has never seen himself play better. Despite the hotly competitive environment and pressures of a young newcomer to the pro tour, he has yet to shoot a single game over par. The division that adapted the HeartMath tools factory-wide has recently been the corporation's most profitable and highest growth division, so far outperforming it's sisters that it was single handedly responsible for keeping the corporation profitable through tough economic times brought on by the recent Asian monetary crisis. I have my two favorite stories representing the best of what happened at the socio-economic extremes we tested in the scientific study: One story is about a factory worker who tells of going to a baseball game where a really offensive fan who had been heckling the players and officials all during the game started in when my factory worker's child came up to bat.

The HeartMath "enabled" factory worker said, "I was able to Freeze-Frame, and just chill-out when this person started saying things about my kid. There he was, right next to me, bad-talking my own kid. I did not hit him, I did not get arrested, and I did not miss work on Monday since I didn't go to jail." How's that for real-life from the lower strata of Maslow's hierarchy.

Contrast that with the story of the Patent Attorney who, during the study, lowered his blood pressure at the same time doubling his work output. That part of the story is astounding enough, but add to that his personal family tragedy where his premature twins lived only a few days in intensive care then died. All this happened to this young professional during the time he doubled his work output and went from hypertensive to normal blood pressure.

From Chaos To Coherence is a must read for businesses today. Responsible business leaders will read and heed it. The HeartMath tools are going to become as important to business in the remarkable times ahead as product quality assurance and meeting customer needs have in the past few years. Making quality products is no longer reserved for a few prestigious product lines, it has become players stakes in today's business game. As soon as your competition starts applying the methods and processes described in this book and embedded in the HeartMath "tools" you will have to apply or fall behind.

And what a glorious set of standards the application of the principles outlined in From Chaos To Coherence is going to provide for modern business. Imagine empowered employees who are happier, healthier and more productive. When attitudes of care and appreciation are genuinely applied within the members of your workforce, imagine what it will do to your bottom line. The health care savings are enormous and the effects on absenteeism and employee job satisfaction are potentially marvelous. But where I see the most effectiveness is in the attitude of empowered employees reflecting care and appreciation toward each other, their families, and YOUR CUSTOMERS. The effect on the bottom line of a business that walks its talk in customer satisfaction is what will set a "HeartMath empowered business" ahead of the rest. Once customers learn the experience of working with a business where the individuals care and appreciate them, customers will start to demand that experience in every transaction with every business.

Get a copy of From Chaos To Coherence and start enjoying the results on your business now.

I'm convinced the most of us have adapted to the chaos we live in. I'm tired of being barraged by the environments where I spend most of my time. This book has given me some easy tools to help fortify my inner environment. It's kind of like having had an emotional virus vaccine. If you're a CEO, manager, salesperson, administrative support person, or factory worker, read this book. It may add some extra years to your life and prevent some unwanted physical by-products of stress, like high blood pressure!

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer have identified a simple blueprint that I think will be the key to changing existing corporate cultures and organizational climates into what they will need to be to survive in the 21st century. Leaders like Jack Welch of GE and Steven Covey have already told us that what will be critical to success in the future is "soft stuff with hard results" and From Chaos to Coherence shows us how to do that with ease, grace, and success!

For any CEO, VP, Manager, Staff, Front Line worker- the simplicity of the concepts, the scientific foundation of the technology, and the ratio of success achieved by major organizations makes this book worth the read.

The simple premise of exercising, on a consistent basis, the innate positive qualities of basic human nature is consistent with the success we see Fast Companies having. With the increasing mental and emotional chaos written about in many articles, business magazines, newspapers, and management books, this book by Childre and Cryer is not only refreshing, but also provides practical solutions carefully laid out in what they call the four dynamics of inner quality management.

I have already started applying their simple processes to my life and my business problems and am experiencing immediate improvements in my mental clarity, productivity, and emotional state, particularly in high pressure situations. As the phrase inner quality implies, I believe we have to take care of ourselves internally first so that we can take care of business!

I am a business consultant. As I read this book the words "This is it" kept running through my brain. These principles of Internal self-management are the antidote to the illness I see in too many organizations. Very talented individuals with a desire to do their very best are losing their spirits and hemorrhaging under the perception that they "can't manage the pace" anymore. Stress and overwhelm feed cynicism which quickly leads to breakdown. Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer have show us the map to restore and sustain organizational vitality and wellness. How to thrive as individuals and then thrive as teams and organizations. I clearly see that these tools are practical, have scientific underpinning and have been field-tested and proven. Imagine the impact on quality, climate and profits if an organization was able to transform even 15% of its Chaos into Coherence. If each organization has a "collective brain", it should be processing its information coherently and creatively, and the lifeblood of that organization (the spirit of its employees) should be coursing thru this oganism with full hearts. Bravo to Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer for showing us how to enter the 21st century with the tools to make this a reality. I'm recommending that every business manager, CEO, VP, administrator and politician study this book, learn the techniques for themselves and bring this to their organizations.

Most editorial and Amazon reviews praised this book of its value on organisational management. To me, this is more a personal management book which I learnt some new ideas and revisited some present ones, all in a highly comprehensible, interesting and easy reading manner. Some points for your reference are:-

1) The heart is not just an organ for pumping blood, but with the second largest amount of neuron (the same type of cell for the functioning in our brain). We do have a lot of it in our digestion system as well, a possible explanation to our heart and gut feelings.

2) Stress affects our production of hormones and drains our energy. Extended period of stress leads to maladaptation and thus premature aging and health problems. I like the author's refering to the fish in the highly contaminated Hudson River.

3) The analogy of the natural frequency in nature (ref the resonance for string instructment) to the need for dynamic balance inside a human and thus an organisation for optimal performance.

In short, though I dont believe the approach prescribed by this book can help much to improve the culture of many big corps, I do regard this as a very good book and I do recommend this to any business person who still has the heart for improvement.

Balance and Coherence in the corporate world? Ha! Then I read the book.... As an Executive Assistant with over 18 years of experience I wish that each and every Manager, Director, and VP that I have supported read this book - AND practiced the methods that Childre and Cryer describe. I will be buying copies of this book for all my "bosses".

Balance and Coherence in the corporate world? Ha! Then I read the book.... As an Executive Assistant with over 18 years of experience I wish that each and every Manager, Director, and VP that I have supported read this book - AND practiced the methods that Childre and Cryer describe. I will be buying copies of this book for all my "bosses".

If you want to take care of your self while taking care of the bottom line of your division, the four dynamics taught in From Chaos To Coherence do it fast.

The Freeze-Frame tool quickly showed me how NOT to react and really listen to my staff. It's in chapter 5 ...go staight there.

It's better than a coffee break.......