Sahil Bloom stood on the side of the stage. There was a buzz coming from the packed auditorium.  

He was the keynote speaker, and it was moments before he was about to deliver his talk.  

The entire event had been building to this moment.

“Go!” the event organizer said, gently pushing his shoulder.  

On cue, the song Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys blasted out of the speakers.

Huh?

“You’re … continue reading

1: “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and one represents opportunity,” John F. Kennedy once said.

Yesterday, we explored how the best CEOs create a small team of senior leaders to deal directly with the crisis.  This prevents the CEO from becoming all-consumed by the situation and enables the rest of the organization to continue to get work done.   … continue reading

1: It was a brutally hot day in Las Vegas.

The conference room where the meeting was being held was freezing, however.

“The participants of my ‘Conscious Business’ workshop pulled their jackets tight and grimaced. They weren’t just cold; they were pissed off,” Fred Kofman writes in The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.

“They looked at me icily,” Fred remembers.  “I’ve been in situations like this many … continue reading

During the construction of St. Paul’s cathedral in London, British architect Sir Christopher Wren asked three men what they were doing.

The first replied, “I am cutting a piece of stone.” The second said: “I am earning five shillings two pence a day.”  The third man answered, “I am building a beautiful cathedral.” 

They were doing the exact same thing. But, one man had a job.  The second, a career.  The third man … continue reading