From: Gino Yu To: Giuseppe Bersani Cc: Omella Corazza "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Neupsyco Congress Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 16:07:36 +0000 Attachments: Neupsyco_20 I 7_-_First_Announcement_(1)_(1).pdf Hi Giuseppe, Can you tell me the format for the Cuba conference? How many parallel tracks / plenaries are there? My talk (and ideally a session) will be on Personal Development, Mental Health, and Human Potential. We had a lot of new insights from the June event in Shanghai. For the October Conference, we are also planning 5 invitation-only gatherings as well. For Cuba, I'm planning a gathering in Tulum before the event. I'd also like to explore running a two day "Business and Consciousness" workshop as well (will also be running it in Shanghai). This is what we did here in HK: Organisational Culture and Personal Development How employees relate to their work and one another has a dramatic impact on the performance of a company and its ability to innovate. In the West, companies spend considerable effort toward creating an engaging culture within their organisation Recent trends include a complete rethink of management (e.g., toward Holacracy) in an effort to empower employees and support agile growth. If one considers that the 24 hour work day is broken into 8 hours of sleep, 12 hours at work, and 4 hours of leisure, the majority of a person's mental activities and effort is dominated by their work and work relationships. This is especially true for entrepreneurs involved in start-ups. Many successful companies today, especially in finance and the creative industries, maximise profit by offering lucrative salaries and bonuses to recruit top talent, and placing recruits on increasingly stressful "treadmills" until they burn out or are culled (finance companies routinely cull the bottom 5% performers), at which time they are replaced by the next band of recruits. Recent challenges and changes at companies such as Fox News and