A good finish, is a great lead-in. January can feel like a rather odd month for me, and for my SLC coworkers and partners. It’s odd in that business wise, we’re likely to be working on a few December remainders though most everyone else is eagerly zooming into the new year. We’ve been on our […]
Archives for January 2014
Honor Your Survivors, Part II
The Results of our Lesson Plan When I suggest journaling or self-coaching exercises to you, you can bet that I’m doing them too. So I tackled the one presented in Honor Your Survivors as my weekend project. It was great! To review the exercise suggestion: “Rewrite these five lessons into manageMEANT lessons. What can these […]
Honor Your Survivors
Preface: In the dawning of a brand new year, many of us enjoy looking ahead, and mapping out new projects. I’m feeling some déjà vu here… May I suggest a way we are well advised to slow down? As those who follow my finds and photos on Ho‘ohana Aloha can attest to, gardening is a […]
Curating Value Alignment
When I urged you to “Be a curator” as opposed to a documenter, I was primarily focusing on how we as managers can begin to curate work performance with the objective of strength-building: Curate, and Be Curated. I also said, “Do it for yourself, and [then] do it for those you manage.” so work becomes […]
Curate, and Be Curated
Have you cracked open that gorgeous new journal you got for Christmas? The clean slate we get each January, is an opportunity for managers to employ start-fresh record-keeping. In this era where a smartphone’s camera and voice recorder normally sits in your pocket or is commonly cradled in hand, (and is often of way better […]
Ka lā hiki ola and Leadership: A Sense of Hope
A Managing with Aloha Whiteboard Lesson: Ka lā hiki ola ~ literally; ‘the dawning of a new day’ Ka lā hiki ola ~ the Value of Hope and Optimism Ka lā hiki ola ~ the Expectation of whatever is ‘next’ coupled with the expectation of Better Leadership ~ championing the Clarity of Compelling Vision Leadership […]
A Discipline with Reading
On Books, and on Immersion: One of my personal resolutions for this shiny new year, is to read books with constancy. ‘Books’ is the operative word: I do read rather voraciously, but in the last few months my regular reading diet has primarily been web-based, or dabbles in ‘tastings’ such as offered by Kindle Singles. […]