SMU Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Jochen Reb’s co-author on the book Mindfulness in Organisations, wrote that close analysis of the latest mindfulness research suggests mindfulness techniques can have a positive effect on all our widely-recognised stages of the decision-making process. Mindfulness can assist in being proactive and identifying when a decision should be made: clarifying the objectives, generating options, avoiding irrational escalation of commitment to a previous bad decision (the sunk cost bias), as well as recognising the ethical dimension of the choice to be made. Research shows that people who are more mindful are also more aware of their ethical principles and make decisions aligned to those values.