148: Eric Kaufmann

 

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This week we talk to Eric Kaufmann about leadership

Eric Kaufmann guides leaders to make better decisions and achieve better results. He has consulted for hundreds of leaders, including executives and teams at Sony, T-Mobile, Genentech, Alcon Labs, and Teradata. He is the founder and president of Sagatica, Inc. and serves on the board of the San Diego Zen Center.

His new book is called the Four Virtues of a Leader and shares practical ideas and tools that deepen a leader’s ability to be efficient, effective and deliberate.

 

 In This Interview, Eric Kaufmann and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, The Four Virtues of a Leader
• How leadership is like The Hero's Journey
• How he used the spiritual bypass
• His definition of leadership
• Leadership in day to day life
• His four questions surrounding leadership
• The three hurdles we have to overcome to be effective
• His definition of courage
• Ways you can build courage
• The important difference between fear and anxiety
• The lifelong process of discipline
• The three gems of Buddhism
• Procrastination
• How spiritual surrender plays into leadership

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