I’d like to follow-up with a bit more on the concept of ‘stellar followership’ mentioned 2 postings before this one: [If you got here via searching the keyword, this article is NOT about social media ‘following’ or ‘friending.’ Here on Managing with Aloha we talk story about good work and great workplaces.] The service stop, […]
Archives for January 2013
The instinctive, natural selection of Wanting
The best advice I give in my new supervisors workshop is this: “Find a good listener you can tell your workplace stories to. Get those stories out of past history, and talk story about them.” It’s advice that goes with “We don’t manage by the book, we manage by the person.” and with “Accept your […]
Life’s 3 Stops in Motivation: Happiness, Meaning, Service
Preface: This posting is follow-up to a conversation started here: They seem happy enough. — Goal! (published January 2, 2013) … and then commented on here — (same page; scroll to the comments) triggered by an article written for The Atlantic by Emily Esfahani Smith: There’s More to Life Than Being Happy The links above […]
Readiness, Good Impatience, and Maintaining our Ignorance
You may have seen this if you follow me on Twitter: The signs are all pointing in the same direction… my 2013 word seems to be READINESS. The rub, of course, is in what I’ll be getting ready FOR. These have been my signposts (a sampling already shared here on the blog, for there have […]
Inaugural Address 2013: “We are made for this moment.”
I like words. I love using vocabulary as the practical yet robust tool it is. I think language is one of our profound human blessings, unique to our species and magical in our expression of it. To choose our words before we speak them, is to constantly recall our blessing, and share in it with […]
Revisiting the Daily 5 Minutes: Lessons Learned
I was talking story with a manager who has been a reader of my blogs for a very long time, as long as I’ve published online, dating back to August of 2004 — 3 months before my book was released. She asked a very perceptive question of me: “Rosa, why isn’t D5M (the Daily 5 […]
Alaka‘i Managers are the new Energy Bunnies
You know the Energizer Bunny, right? “He keeps going, and going…” If you are a manager, assume the role of Energy Bunny in your workplace. Change the title on your business card to Energy Channeler; come on, I dare you. Whatever you have there now is probably more normal, and normal is boring. (Did you […]