Conscious Business Quotes

“There are no difficult conflicts. There are only conflicts we don’t know how to resolve.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“We tend to see ourselves primarily
in the light of our intentions,
which are invisible to others,
while we see others mainly in the light of their actions,
which are visible to us.
J.G. BENNETT”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“In times of change, the learners will inherit the Earth while those attached to their old certainties will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
ERIC HOFFER”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Spending time with your family will not make you happy; spending time loving your family will. The way you do any activity is more important for your happiness than the activity itself.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“There are some important differences between success and integrity. Success is in the future. It is the outcome of a process that takes time and depends on factors beyond our control. Integrity is immediate and unconditional.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“The essential or unconditional definition of freedom is our capacity to respond to a situation by exercising our free will.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Freedom distinguishes a human being from every other type of being; being human means being able to choose. Perhaps the most important exercise of this freedom is the decision about whether to live as a victim or a player.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“You must take unconditional responsibility; you need to see yourself as a “player,” as a central character who has contributed to shape the current situation—and who can thus affect its future. This is the opposite of seeing yourself as a “victim,” subject to forces beyond your control. The player is in the game and can affect the result. The victim is out of the game and can only suffer the consequences of others’ actions.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Leadership is the process by which a person sets a purpose for other persons and motivates them to pursue it with effectiveness and full commitment. Leadership transforms individual potential into collective performance. The leader’s job is to develop and maintain a high-performing team. Her effectiveness is demonstrated by the performance of the team.*”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“A conscious business promotes mindfulness for all of its stakeholders. Employees are encouraged to investigate the world with rigorous scientific reasoning and to reflect on their role in it with equally rigorous moral reasoning. They are invited to contemplate their own selves, finding what it means to live with virtue, meaning, and happiness. They are also asked to think of their colleagues as human beings, rather than as “human resources.” Finally, they are required to understand their customers, offering them products and services that support their growth and well-being. A conscious business fosters peace and happiness in individuals, respect and solidarity in the community, and mission accomplishment in the organization.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Consciousness is the ability to experience reality, to be aware of our inner and outer worlds.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Learning is a contact sport.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“freedom, responsibility, and integrity are the keys to success, but that these qualities demand the courage to face existential anxiety.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Your behavior always expresses your values-in-action. Your integrity hinges on whether your values-in-action agree with your essential values.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Thus the most important function of the leader is to encourage everyone to see him- or herself as a member of the larger system, pursuing a common vision, holding common values, and cooperating with each other in an environment of mutual support and respect. Only”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“the conscious leader helps the group redirect that energy toward pursuing its goals with integrity.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“If leaders display the self-righteous indignation of the victim, they encourage their followers to do the same. The”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Consciousness of man’s inherent freedom, responsibility, and power is the most important quality of a business leader, not just for the well-being of the organization’s members, but for the success of the company itself.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“That is absurd. Nobody”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Frankl discovered that a human being’s fundamental dignity lies in his capacity to choose his response to any situation—his response-ability.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Since the victim does not see himself as part of the problem, he cannot imagine himself as part of the solution.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Taking care of ourselves does not preclude educating abusers or removing them from our organizations.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“the more conscious you are of your autonomy, the more unconditioned your responses will be.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“As a human being, you are an autonomous (from the Greek, “self-ruling”) being. And”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Response-ability is your ability to respond to a situation. You”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“How can you avert these disasters?”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Al’s explanation doesn’t appease John. “It’s”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“A leader who does not confront broken commitments encourages polite complacency.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“employees have to be managed as if they were volunteers. PETER DRUCKER”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Only a conscious leader can evoke the spirit of unconditional responsibility in each of her followers and in her organization as a whole.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values