{"id":5281,"date":"2026-05-24T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:13:26","slug":"hoe-meditatie-je-helpt-een-betere-manager-te-worden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/hoe-meditatie-je-helpt-een-betere-manager-te-worden\/","title":{"rendered":"How meditation helps you become a better manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your schedule is overflowing. Your phone rings constantly. At the same time, your employees expect you to think clearly, listen well, and make the right decisions. Does that sound familiar? Then you are not alone. Many managers feel trapped in the daily grind, while knowing that something is missing: the space to be truly present.<br><br>Meditation might sound like something for yoga retreats, far away from the boardroom. But the scientific and practical evidence is now convincing: meditating regularly makes you a sharper, more empathetic, and more resilient leader. Not by running away from reality, but precisely by being more consciously present in it.<br><br>Check out books that help you out of this presssure prison. Including the book: Spirited Personal Leadership (in Dutch: Persoonlijk Inspirerend Leiderschap). On this Dutch Publisher Page of Management Book, you will discover what meditation can concretely mean for you as a manager, and which books will help you on your way \u2014 from neuroscientific insights to direct applications in your daily leadership practice: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.managementboek.nl\/uitdaging_oplossing\/leiderschap_en_persoonlijke_ontwikkeling\/hoe_kan_meditatie_mij_helpen_een_betere_manager_te_worden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TAKE A LOOK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je agenda puilt uit. Je telefoon gaat constant. Tegelijkertijd verwachten je medewerkers dat je helder denkt, goed luistert en de juiste beslissingen neemt. Klinkt dat herkenbaar? Dan ben je niet de enige. Veel managers voelen zich gevangen in de waan van de dag, terwijl ze weten dat er iets ontbreekt: de ruimte om \u00e9cht aanwezig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinthoolen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}