‘Should-ing’ isn’t a word that’s made it into the dictionary yet, far as I know. Yet should-ing is probably one of the most useful words I know, part of my vocabulary for a dozen years or so, thanks to Marcus Buckingham, the gentleman who champions the strengths management movement. Should-ing is a cautionary word about […]
Archives for January 2015
Seek Bigger Visions
Funny how the world will conspire. When I posted Seek A Better Mission just before this, I did not anticipate sharing this as a followup. Yet sometimes, something you cannot fathom in one day, will become overwhelmingly obvious the next. Yes, we need better missions. We need bigger visions too. Not bigger in the sense […]
Seek a Better Mission
Better Trumps Brand New We’ve been talking about MISSION lately: 1. Here: Speaking with Aloha: Called on a Mission. 2. On LinkedIn Pulse: It’s Time to Affirm your Mission — or Change it. We often run into a misconception about mission: We think we have to begin anew and start from scratch, coming up with […]
Speaking with Aloha: Called on a Mission
In Speaking with Aloha, articulate the mission you feel called to as your affirmation for today. How does the work you have currently chosen to do, and have scheduled for the day ahead, connect to getting a mission accomplished? In Managing with Aloha, you start to learn Hawaiian words for values. In essence, they are […]
Reprise: This January, Slow Down ~ Be a Champion
When I started to queue up this week’s Saturday Archive Aloha, this instantly popped up in my memory though it was written two years ago: This January, Slow Down. I have been trying to do just that. Maybe you have too? January has this tendency to zoom ahead with a lot of impatience, not all […]
Speaking with Aloha: Energy, Managing, Leading
In Speaking with Aloha, managing and leading (ref: Be an ~INGer) are not interchangeable words / verbs for Alaka‘i Managers: We define managing and leading in terms of energy, and we believe that great managers do both every single day. Human energy is the primary asset in any workplace, any discipline, any industry: Human labor, […]
Speaking with Aloha: Be an ~INGer
In Speaking with Aloha, we continue to be ~ingers. An ~inger is a doer. The magic sauce of Managing with Aloha is in connecting our values to dynamic verbs that will drive better behaviors, our actions of Aloha. For instance, that is essentially what our recent year-end / year-begin exercise was all about. Our constant […]