Key ideas from Cal Riley

• "They'll never care how much you know until they know how much you care" - Cal's core principle for compassionate leadership
• Cal developed green-on-blue battle drills in Afghanistan where one soldier engaged targets while another watched their back
• After implementing EOS, Cal went from working 90 hours per week to just one meeting per week in his construction business
• All proceeds from Entrepreneurial Compassion go to charity with a mission to create a million compassionate leaders and prevent 100,000 suicides
• Cal kept an employee on full pay and benefits for six months during a health crisis, viewing it as investment rather than cost
• "We can only treat other people as good or maybe not quite as good as we treat ourselves" - compassion must start with self-care
• Cal's 23-minute transcendental meditation and structured journaling practice forms the foundation of his compassionate leadership approach