Contrary to popular belief, our scarcest resource in the workplace isn’t time or attention — it’s inner energy. To achieve maximum productivity, companies should dedicate sufficient time to the most pressing tasks. They should also challenge the common view that businesses gain a commercial and competitive advantage by absorbing as much information as possible or developing awareness. You easily find a lot of burnout people that are fully aware and have attention to the present moment.

In a study done by Energy Project US, led by Tony Swartz, completed by +150,000 people worldwide the outcome was that 74% of employees are in an energy crisis — a result that speaks for itself.

So, how can leaders manage their energy more effectively and focus on the right tasks?

1. Individually — by changing intimate behaviors and learning how to control their procreative and substantial potential and use it for net-superior purposes. The process is based on the biological transmutation of erotic fluids at body temperature, if one knows and applies simple techniques. This will bring multiple benefits to personal and especially professional lives.

2. You can avoid loss of energy by understanding that unless you want to procreate you should not lose your procreator and substantial potential through a banal discharge that brings a limited pleasure but in time decrepitude. Just consider that 1 gram of procreative & substantial potential values 100 drops of blood.

3. While rational thinking is everywhere, you shouldn’t be afraid to rely on intuition. It’s tempting to back every argument with evidence, but the most successful business leaders — from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos — have always sought to combine rational and intuitive thinking and have practiced new behaviors. Why not see and integrate your intimate life as an opportunity for leadership development? Why not extract an incredible amount of energy from your private couple intimate experiences?

4. Find time for reflection. Think of taking breaks as a form of meditation allowing you to change your inner resonance. I find a 30-minute meditation session is great for changing my state, uplifting my energy, and clarifying my work priorities.

Managing your inner energy is one thing, but what about other people’s?

Knowing that change is the only constant, you and your team share the risk of burnout, each member is also highly sensitive to stimuli and cues from you for energy recharge. Without realizing it, you adjust their energy and attention when talking about cost-cutting, new strategic initiatives, or promotions…These changes focus your team’s energy and collectively shape people’s views on what’s important, which in turn influence their subsequent behaviors. A manager is better if he/she is able to effectively manage their team’s energy first and then their attention.

My advice for managing your team’s energy is to follow these rules:

-Firstly, explain the concept of inner energy. Explain the importance of inner energy management and balance, harmony, joy, and happiness. Create the right resonance in your team. If you emphasize continuously only business objectives each week, employees get bored and tune out. Conversely, they are more likely to share and understand your goals if you show care about their happiness. For example, a Silicon Valley tech start-up begins each meeting by talking about happiness– it’s a simple but effective way of keeping the issue high on employees’ attention.

-Second, be clear on where they focus their energy; are their energy centered on the current customer segmentation when they should be thinking about non-customers? Once you’re aware of their focus, you can strategically shift them away from this as and when required. For example, a global FMCG company missed opportunities in Central Europe because it had three directors burning out — and their replacements weren’t able to deal with the complexity of the ongoing projects. To address this, the CEO launched an Inner Energy initiative and made sure that people understood that behind any change program they need inner energy to make things happen. The changes led to a marked shift in people’s behaviors, with the company focusing more on meditation practice and other techniques.

Our job as managers is to use scarce resources effectively. In today’s knowledge era, we think of inner energy as a scarce resource that needs harnessing. However, information is everywhere and knowledge, toolkits and practices are shared widely across companies and are accessible. Only to be practiced!

With enough inner energy, one can build and develop new behaviors and further new competencies.

In such a world, the scarce resource is your own and your employees’ energy — and we need to manage it smarter by learning and practicing new behaviors that have no medical risks attached. As it is known, change starts from within.

Ioana Jigau is a psychologist practitioner, and program manager for Inner Alchemist a groundbreaking leadership program offered in Munich and Geneva.

Contrary to popular belief, our scarcest resource in the workplace isn’t time or attention — it’s inner energy. To achieve maximum productivity, companies should dedicate sufficient time to the most pressing tasks. They should also challenge the common view that businesses gain a commercial and competitive advantage by absorbing as much information as possible or developing awareness. You easily find a lot of burnout people that are fully aware and have attention to the present moment.

In a study done by Energy Project US, led by Tony Swartz, completed by +150,000 people worldwide the outcome was that 74% of employees are in an energy crisis — a result that speaks for itself.

So, how can leaders manage their energy more effectively and focus on the right tasks?

1. Individually — by changing intimate behaviors and learning how to control their procreative and substantial potential and use it for net-superior purposes. The process is based on the biological transmutation of erotic fluids at body temperature, if one knows and applies simple techniques. This will bring multiple benefits to personal and especially professional lives.

2. You can avoid loss of energy by understanding that unless you want to procreate you should not lose your procreator and substantial potential through a banal discharge that brings a limited pleasure but in time decrepitude. Just consider that 1 gram of procreative & substantial potential values 100 drops of blood.

3. While rational thinking is everywhere, you shouldn’t be afraid to rely on intuition. It’s tempting to back every argument with evidence, but the most successful business leaders — from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos — have always sought to combine rational and intuitive thinking and have practiced new behaviors. Why not see and integrate your intimate life as an opportunity for leadership development? Why not extract an incredible amount of energy from your private couple intimate experiences?

4. Find time for reflection. Think of taking breaks as a form of meditation allowing you to change your inner resonance. I find a 30-minute meditation session is great for changing my state, uplifting my energy, and clarifying my work priorities.

Managing your inner energy is one thing, but what about other people’s?

Knowing that change is the only constant, you and your team share the risk of burnout, each member is also highly sensitive to stimuli and cues from you for energy recharge. Without realizing it, you adjust their energy and attention when talking about cost-cutting, new strategic initiatives, or promotions…These changes focus your team’s energy and collectively shape people’s views on what’s important, which in turn influence their subsequent behaviors. A manager is better if he/she is able to effectively manage their team’s energy first and then their attention.

My advice for managing your team’s energy is to follow these rules:

-Firstly, explain the concept of inner energy. Explain the importance of inner energy management and balance, harmony, joy, and happiness. Create the right resonance in your team. If you emphasize continuously only business objectives each week, employees get bored and tune out. Conversely, they are more likely to share and understand your goals if you show care about their happiness. For example, a Silicon Valley tech start-up begins each meeting by talking about happiness– it’s a simple but effective way of keeping the issue high on employees’ attention.

-Second, be clear on where they focus their energy; are their energy centered on the current customer segmentation when they should be thinking about non-customers? Once you’re aware of their focus, you can strategically shift them away from this as and when required. For example, a global FMCG company missed opportunities in Central Europe because it had three directors burning out — and their replacements weren’t able to deal with the complexity of the ongoing projects. To address this, the CEO launched an Inner Energy initiative and made sure that people understood that behind any change program they need inner energy to make things happen. The changes led to a marked shift in people's behaviors, with the company focusing more on meditation practice and other techniques.

Our job as managers is to use scarce resources effectively. In today’s knowledge era, we think of inner energy as a scarce resource that needs harnessing. However, information is everywhere and knowledge, toolkits and practices are shared widely across companies and are accessible. Only to be practiced!

With enough inner energy, one can build and develop new behaviors and further new competencies.

In such a world, the scarce resource is your own and your employees’ energy — and we need to manage it smarter by learning and practicing new behaviors that have no medical risks attached. As it is known, change starts from within.

Ioana Jigau is a psychologist practitioner, and program manager for Inner Alchemist a groundbreaking leadership program offered in Munich and Geneva.