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1: Question one: “How can we build a real, honest, human foundation for an enterprise—one that is so trustworthy that people will give just about anything to be part of it?” writes Fred Kofman in The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership

Question two: “Then, when everyone is committed, how do we work together effectively to win as a team?”

Who is a real-life leader who not only … continue reading

The workplace engagement results were back. The consultant had conducted thousands of these surveys.

“Our employees had the lowest levels of trust he had ever seen,” Doug Conant recalls. “He said that our culture was ‘swamp water.'” 

Doug had recently been hired as the Senior Vice President of Marketing at the Nabisco Biscuit Company, then a $5.5 billion operation. Three years earlier, the firm had done a leveraged buyout (LBO) … continue reading