1: One evening, future LinkedIn CEO and Executive Chairman Jeff Weiner was enjoying a pint of Belgian beer with his business coach, Fred Kofman. 

He shared with Fred that his personal mission was “to expand the world’s collective wisdom.”

“That reminds me of a Buddhist teaching,” Fred recalls saying in his book  The Meaning Revolution.  “Wisdom without compassion is ruthless; compassion without wisdom is foolish.”

“Hmmm,” Jeff answered.… continue reading

1: “A lot of leaders are rowing a boat. They’re bringing everyone along with them, and saying, ‘Come follow me,'” Fred Kofman writes in The Meaning Revolution.

“But the way I’ve seen Jeff Weiner (Executive Chairman of LinkedIn) and other great leaders do it, they’ll go and get on a surfboard. They don’t say, ‘Follow me.’ They say, ‘Come join us on this huge wave.'”

What’s the difference … continue reading