1: Stu was mad as hell.  

“We got screwed,” he told Fred Kofman, Fred relays in his book  The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.  

Stu was a sales executive for an enterprise software company. Fred served as an advisor to the firm and was leading a workshop with the sales team.

Several months earlier, the company had introduced a highly-anticipated new version of its core product.  … 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: 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