1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations.
On Fridays, to begin 2025, I will share some of the wit and wisdom of the late, great Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett‘s business partner and former Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 99.
Charlie developed … continue reading
1: It was 6 pm. Andrés parked his car across the street from his home.
“As he stepped out, two armed robbers assaulted him,” Fred Kofman writes in his book The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.
One of the thieves pointed a gun at him and commanded him to open the front door of his home.
Andrés stayed calm.
“Listen, guys, my wife and daughter are inside. … continue reading
1: Fred Kofman was writing. So was his wife. Who was sitting next to him.
She asked him if he wanted something to drink.
“Yes,” I told her, he recalls in his book The Meaning Revolution. “Some soda water, thank you.”
“Right away, as soon as I send this e-mail,” she responded.
As Fred waited for her to get him a drink, he “felt a deeper sense of thirst … continue reading
1: It was a bright, sunny November morning in 2010.
“Qantas Airways Flight 32 took off from Singapore en route to Sydney,” Fred Kofman writes in his book The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.
As pilot Richard de Crespigny flew the plane to eight thousand feet, he heard a loud boom. Then, a crashing sound.
“One of the engines had caught fire,” Fred writes. “The ensuing … continue reading
1: “Sorry I’m late. My other meeting ran over.”
How many times have we heard these words?
How many times have we said these words?
The message we are sending is: “Don’t blame me. If my previous meeting had finished earlier, I would have been on time,” Fred Kofman writes in his book The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.
There may be truth to our statement. And … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Last month, I shared my proven annual goal-setting process. For the past six years, I have selected ten yearly goals. Which I call “The Ten.”
2: In 2024, seven … continue reading
1: Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was working on his groundbreaking research on flow, the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.
Mihaly contacted Peter Drucker, the preeminent management thinker, to interview him regarding creativity.
Peter’s response struck a chord with Mihaly, so much so that he included it in his book:
“I am greatly honored and flattered by your kind … continue reading
1: In 2014, Nike announced it would release the “P-ROD 8,” American skateboarder Paul Rodriguez‘s eighth signature shoe.
P-Rod became only the fourth athlete ever to release eight unique signature shoes. The other three athletes? Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James.
“Having a signature shoe with Nike is an extremely rare feat,”  Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How … continue reading
“Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming. It’s easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It’s easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” -Tim Ferriss
1: As human beings, we have a strong aversion to loss.
“We fear and avoid loss far more than we seek gain,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less.
When it comes to personal growth, releasing our previous identity “can feel like an enormous loss,” Dan and Ben note.
“Letting go of who we’ve been, how … continue reading
