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Number of CDs: 12
Release Date: 18-10-2006
Label: Sounds True
Catalog Number: AF00940D
Barcode: 600835094023
Musical Style: Business/Financial
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Description:
Consciousness, teaches Fred Kofman, is the capacity to observe, choose, and act in accord with your values. And “conscious business” means using that ability at every level of your work: in being aware of the needs of others and expressing your own - in seeing the hidden emotional obstacles that may be holding your team back - in making good decisions under pressure - and even in delving into such “spiritual” questions as “Who am I?” and “What is my real purpose here?” On Conscious Business, you will join this visionary teacher and founder of Leading Learning Communities to master these skills.
Higher Consciousness, Real World Results
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that others finally understood your work challenges and were ready to help you solve them ... that every meeting was valuable ... that commitments were always met ... and that your strongest talents were finally being put to use? For more than ten years, Fred Kofman has helped organizations ranging from small nonprofits to corporations like General Motors, Chrysler, and Microsoft to become learning communities with these remarkable qualities. Now, you can learn how to transform your workplace in the same way.
True learning - the kind that leads to measurable improvement - requires courage and effort, teaches Kofman, but it will happen if you are willing to learn five crucial skills:
Becoming a Learner, Rather Than a Knower: How “Know-It-Alls” can harm an organization - and how to become an adaptive and responsive Learner instead
Skillful Inquiry and Truth-Telling: How to draw the truth from others respectfully and how to communicate your own
Making Conscious Commitments: How to ask for and get what you want in a way that builds trust and clarity among those involved
Understanding and Engaging Your Emotions: How to use your self-awareness and empathy to become a more effective person
Personal Mastery: How to stop being a Victim and start being a Player who engages every dimension of your consciousness to meet your challenges
Becoming more conscious in business requires courage and an open mind. It means putting aside the “right way” in order to discover something better. If you’re ready to make that leap - and start turning your workplace into an adaptive and resilient community that cultivates intelligence, creativity, and integrity in every member - Conscious Business is the place to begin.
Biography:
Fred Kofman is Axialent's co-founder and President. An extraordinary teacher, Fred awakens people to act with greater responsibility, integrity and courage; his ideas combine philosophical depth with practical applicability. He has created and taught programs in leadership, personal mastery, team learning, organizational effectiveness and coaching for more than 15,000 participants. His clients include leaders such as Microsoft, Shell, Yahoo! and General Motors. Fred holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was distinguished as outstanding instructor. He worked as an assistant professor of Management Accounting and Control Systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he received the “Teacher of the Year” award in 1992. At MIT, he was also a senior researcher at the Organizational Learning Center, where he worked with Peter Senge. He is a founding member of the Business Branch of the Integral Institute, where he works with Ken Wilber. He is also a member of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, an organization devoted to meditation practice led by Reginald Ray. Fred has led seminars in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia and presented his research at MIT’s Sloan School, Harvard University’s Economic Department, Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, The London School of Economics, the University of Tel Aviv, Universidad de Barcelona, Nanyang Technological Institute of Singapore, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He also teaches in Naropa University and the University of Notre Dame’s Executive MBA and non-degree executive education programs.
His work has appeared in several publications including The Fifth Discipline Field Book, The Journal of Organizational Dynamics, Management Science and Econometrica. He is the author of the trilogy Metamanagement (Granica, 2001) and the audio program Conscious Business (Sounds True, 2002).
Beyond his work, Fred enjoys traveling and outdoor activities, having run nine marathons, climbed Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, heli-skied in the Bugaboos and the Himalayas, scuba-dived in the Caribbean, and trekked for several weeks in Nepal and Thailand. Fred lives with his wife and six children in Boulder, Colorado.
