Case 01: Scaling

Compassion-The story of
Google Employee #107

Submitting to: Prof L Gandhi

Submitted by: Group 07

21011- Bharath Kumar

21121- Ajai Josy
21162- Shipra Bharadwaj
21116- Tanvi Mundra
21166- Siri Rajesh Kini
21175- Vineet R
 Case briefing

•Google famously let’s its •Chade-Meng Tan’s

•Research and
engineers spend 20 per Epiphany to create the
consultation with monks,
cent of their time conditions for world
scientists and professors
pursuing a passion/Goal peace within his lifetime

•Search inside Yourself

•Compassion
Program
 The Team

Mirabai Bush- Founder of centre for Contemplative mind in society.

Philippe Goldin- Neuro scientist from Stanford.

Norman Fischer- American’s top Zen master.

Marc lesser- CEO of Zed BA associates.

Daniel Goleman- Author of the book “emotional intelligence”.

 Q1. When Google allowed its engineers to spend 20 minutes of their
time in pursuing their passion, you spent your time on a cause dear
to you heart. Please describe it?
Timeline Objectives How Result

2003  Somehow align

Recreate condition Search inside
peace, joy,
of world peace by yourself program
compassion with
scaling inner peace, (SIY)
success and profit
joy and compassion
 Emotional
intelligence
As a consequence of
Meng developed a seven-week personal Chade-Meng Tan's
improvement programme called Search Inside pondering philosophy of
Yourself in collaboration with Zen masters, fostering inner peace and
meditation instructors, psychiatrists, and even a compassion while forging a
CEO (SIY). Since its inception in 2007, Google has connection to success and
put more over a thousand workers through SIY, wealth, a revolutionary
with astonishing outcomes programme emerged.
Q 2) Describe the strong link that exists between compassion and
happiness.

Minimization of
sense of self:
Happiest mental
leading to the
state.
happiest state of
mind.

Selfless and
Agape or selfless
compassionate
love , the Greek
feeling leading to
concept is brought
the spiritual
by compassion.
realm.
 Q3. You believe
compassion not only makes
us happy, but it is also
good for business. How?

Improved leadership Ability to inspire Customer

Good to great teams experience
• Level 5 Leaders shared
two qualities – • Showing compassion to
Exchanging compassion
customers means
Humility and an encourages generosity and showing them you care.
ambition for the greater workers are committed to • Empathetic organizations
good. their coworkers and the understand their
• Compassion is a organisation. customers better and
mixture of Emotional, work towards fulfilling
Cognitive and their needs.
Motivational Quality.
  Culture at Google is quite distinctive.
 The factors which distinguishes Google are
Q4. You have said  There is huge amount of Autonomy
that google is a  The employees think big.
compassionate  Their culture of compassionate concern
company, and that for the greater good.
its expressions of  Everyone at Google cares about changing the
compassion fallow a world in some small way.
pattern. Please  3 Employees raised funds to build a medical
explain. center in a region where 2,00,000 people were
living without a single medical facility.
 According to Mr. Meng the main reason
why the engineers were attending the
session was Cognitive dissonance.
5) One of the chapters
in your book is titled
‘Even an engineer can
thrive on emotional Cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict
intelligence’ How do that occurs when your beliefs don't line
up with your actions.
data-focused,
quantitative types react
to your vision? Everything they
teach has scientific
reason to it.
Meng has mentioned 3 Application of the
steps that they follow. things they learn.
Use of precise
language
 • Compassion as an emotion
In contrast to other emotions, compassion is
seen as more of an activity. Compassion is the
ability to combine care, empathy, and humility
to lessen the suffering of others.

• Humility building recognition and

6) Describe the role of humility accepting others
The closeness with a person makes you more attached to
in creating a culture of that person more than our personal goals. respecting and
compassion. acknowledging the roles and contributions of others

• Evolution from Self to other

In the beginning there is only Self, there is no
Other; then later, there is Self and there is Other.
Finally, there is no Self, there is only Other.
Q7. As indicated, your mission is to create the conditions for world peace in your
lifetime by scaling inner peace and compassion globally. Looking around today, are
you optimistic about your quest

Exercising for the mind – Mindfulness

Emotional Intelligence the Inevitable tool
Mindfulness at work – Practices to be followed to gain mental fitness
Success though mindfulness
 LEARNINGS

•COMPASSION •COMPASSION IN •IT BRINGS NEW •LEADS TO SELF •THE RECIPE

AND HAPPINESS TERMS OF IDEA, DEVELOPMENT. FOR HAPPINESS
ARE RELATED. BUSINESS HAS A UNDERSTANDIN AND SUCCESS:
DIFFERENT G AND COMPASSION
VIEW. MOTIVATION TO
THE WORK.
THANK YOU!