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Conscious Business

Disciplines:
philosophy
management
leadership
kofman

Summary

Fred Kofman's 2006 argument that excellent business performance and human development are not in conflict but are the same process — and that the foundation of conscious business is taking unconditional responsibility, acting with integrity, and communicating authentically.

Core Contribution

Provides the philosophical foundation for values-based management — Kofman's synthesis of organizational learning, philosophy of mind, and existential ethics gives leaders a framework for aligning business performance with human development.

Historical Influences

Fred Kofman Peter Senge

Intellectual Lineage

Fred Kofman Sounds True

Allied Works

The Fifth Discipline Metamanagement

Contemporaries & Peers

The Fifth Discipline Good to Great

Minds Influenced

Leadership development Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Conscious Business

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