Pono: The Hawaiian value of balance and rightness. Many think of Pono as the value of ethics. “It’s herstory!” No matter your political persuasion, you must acknowledge that July 28th, 2016 was a very historic day for America: Headlines for the history books: How newspapers across the country are commemorating Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination It […]
Archives for July 2016
It’s Time We Stop Withdrawing, and Get Involved Beyond Protest
To withdraw, is easy. Too easy. In last week’s newsletter, I mentioned that I have a tendency to opt out of social and broadcast media when the current news of the day turns particularly tragic and explosive in human casualty and anger-filled emotion. Sadness, alarm and despair are emotions running rampant lately, and I want […]
Bring Back the New: Revise to Value Ho‘omau
We’re almost there. My “twelve years later” 2nd edition of Managing with Aloha is with the printer, and their galleys are on their way to me for final proofing. Thus the book should be released later this month! I will briefly preview my 2nd edition just for you, my wonderful MWA blog subscribers, at post’s […]
Sunday Mālama: Remembering our Elders
Death delivers a strange blessing. When elders die, we newly appreciate them, often more so than while they lived, and were still able to teach us. We miss them, when we could have remembered them in a far less disconnected way. Does our hindsight help us live differently? Two famous elders died recently: New York […]
Kākou Communications and Our Tribe
Happy July 2016! Let’s dig in to 2 bits of vocabulary we use in our Language of Intention (Key 5): Kākou Communications, and Tribe as the notion of a community larger than team — I refer to our Ho‘ohana Community as a tribe. Let’s also talk about how the two go together. As a brief […]