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With your host, Pete McChitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

for episode 303 of Fred Kaufman.

Fred makes an excellent case for how purpose makes all the difference and how to

connect to it and unleash its power.

So you'll learn one, the first hurdle to working in a group, two, how to find the inspiration in your work, and three, how to solve the problem of disinformation. So if you'd like to check out the show notes of the transcript or the links to Adams that we've referenced, you'll find that on over at awesome at your job

dot com slash F three zero three. Now here's Fred's story. Fred Kaufman is a leadership advisor at

Google and former vice president of executive development and leading at LinkedIn, where he worked with top

CEOs and executives around the world.

Board in Argentina, Kaufman came to the US as a graduate student where he earned his PhD

in Advanced Economic Theory at UC Berkeley.

He taught management accounting and finance at MIT for six years before

performing his own consulting company, Axieland, and teaching leadership workshops or corporations

such as General Motors, Chrysler, Shell,

Microsoft and Citibank. At its height his company had 150 people and

created and taught programs to more than 15,000 executives. Shell Sandberg

writes about him in her book,

Lean In, claiming Kaufman will transform the way you live and work.

So thanks to Fred for sharing his time with us.

And thanks to our sponsors.

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