Live, work, manage, lead

Our February Ho‘ohana is here! Aloha; the Intent of Great Managers. Have you seen it yet on Talking Story?

From now until our next Jumpstart on February 20th, jump into the TS discussions: Live it, and then work it. In the ho‘ohana post you will see the preview for the six different discussions we will have on Aloha this month.

Why do I say, Live it, and then work it. --???

You must climb smaller mountain peaks before you can build up your capacity for scaling a Mauna Kea or Mount Everest.

There is a peak-to-peak mountain climbing progression in Managing with Aloha that goes with the imagery of Kulia i ka nu‘u, Strive to the highest summit:

In your book, you will see that I first talk about it on page 69 under What waits at your highest place?

I give you a real-life real-work example of how peak-to-peak progression works with goal setting starting on page 74, under Define the achievement you must deliver as a manager.

The peak-to-peak mountain climbing progression of the entire MWA philosophy as a “sensibility for worthwhile work” is fairly simple, and it looks like this:

Stated simply, you must live with aloha before you can integrate it into your work. Those two steps come before you can manage others with it, and before you can harness the aloha-packed power of MWA leadership.

Within this MWAJ program — and as is the reality of your life — you actually work a little on all four things simultaneously, however your mountain climbing journey is sequential in how effective you get at scaling each peak along the way.

For example, if we look at this as percentages, when we start MWAJ, our focus is roughly:

50% Living Aloha,
30% Working Aloha,
15% Managing Aloha, and
5% Leading Aloha

= A MWA sensibility for worthwhile work

As we continue the program we can shift our focus progressively higher, however it is important to note that we are not simply shifting the percentages. The goal is to have the practices we’ve learned in scaling the smaller peaks become habitual and instinctive: we now can do them consistently well all the time, and need not focus so much of our energies on them. We can focus on becoming better managers and leaders because we have self-managed and self-led.

So this month we focus on Aloha. Aloha; the Intent of Great Managers.

More to come on those 6 discussions between now and February 20th.

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