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Fred Kofman

Né(e): October 10, 1960 – Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Fred Kofman is an economist, executive coach, and leadership advisor focused on conscious business, organizational culture, and values-based management. He is best known for Conscious Business and The Meaning Revolution, and for senior leadership-development work with companies including LinkedIn and Google, influencing executives worldwide.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Fred Kofman grew up in Argentina before building an academic career in the United States. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in advanced theory and industrial organization, and from 1990 to 1996 taught at MIT Sloan while also serving as a senior researcher in the Organizational Learning Center under Peter Senge. That combination of economics, systems thinking, and organizational learning became the foundation of his later work: leadership, in his account, had to be both analytically rigorous and deeply human. ((https://www.fredkofman.org/about-fred))

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To be conscious means to be awake, mindful
-Conscious Business
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This is a poor way to drive—and an even poorer way to live
-Conscious Business
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Conscious employees are an organization’s most important asset; unconscious employees are its most dangerous liability
-Conscious Business
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Nothing is more vital for exceptional performance than conscious management
-Conscious Business
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Leadership is the way in which a manager manages
-Conscious Business
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Your real job is to help your company to win; that is, to accomplish its mission profitably and ethically
-The Meaning Revolution
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Leadership is about getting what can’t be taken, and deserving what is freely given
-The Meaning Revolution
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I define leadership as the process by which a person (the leader) elicits the internal commitment of others (the followers) to accomplish a mission in alignment with the group’s values
-The Meaning Revolution

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