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5SQ—Spiritual Intelligence

Mats Lederhausen first contacted me a few years ago when I was about to visit Sweden. He told me that he had read my books, and that he had a problem he wanted to discuss. He asked if we could meet. At the time, Mats was the chief executive of McDonald’s for Sweden.

We met in a café on the outskirts of Stockholm. Mats was in his mid-thirties, dark, handsome, and in obvious good health. He seemed nervous at first, slightly embarrassed by his reason for wanting to see me. “I suppose you could say,” he began, “that I have a ‘spiritual problem.’ I am still young, I have a beautiful family and plenty of money, and I’m at the top of my profession here in Sweden. But I’m not happy. I feel there has to be something more ...

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