Preface: This post continues our value immersion with ‘Ohana. If you are newly joining us, I suggest you start here: ‘Ohana x2 and the 10 Tenets of an ‘Ohana in Business. Sharing in the ‘Ohana in Business When you first read through my 10 Tenets for an ‘Ohana in Business (reprinted for your review below) […]
Archives for July 2017
Sunday Mālama: Stretching your 8 Hours
When Samuel Gompers, who led the labor group that organized this particular iteration of the 8-hour movement, was asked, “What does labor want?” he responded, “It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.” And to me it seems significant that it’s not 8 hours of, say, “leisure” or “education,” but “8 hours of what we […]
The ‘Ohana in Business Starts with “Why?”
Preface: This is post no. 3 in our current value immersion. If you are newly joining us, you may want to start with; 1. ‘Ohana x2 and the 10 Tenets of an ‘Ohana in Business 2. About our Practice of Value Immersion Naming your initiatives is important, particularly when they aren’t just experiments or pilot […]
About our Practice of Value Immersion
Back home in Hawai‘i on her college break, my beautiful, fun-loving niece Brookie posted this summertime photo on her Instagram… …and one of her friends commented, “Why are you in a blow up pool when you live on an island with an ocean 30 ft away?” Look through Brookie’s full gallery, and you’ll see she […]
Red, White, and Blue Virtues
Preface: The original version of this post was published on my Talking Story blog in 2006, and given the atmosphere of 2017 I thought it was a good time for a look back and fresh edit. Much has changed in these past eleven years, and often, the best way to go forward, is to look […]
‘Ohana x2 and the 10 Tenets of an ‘Ohana in Business
“I was a long time coming I’ll be a long time gone You’ve got your whole life to do something and that’s not very long.” —Songwriter Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight I betcha DiFranco wasn’t thinking about business models when she wrote those lyrics, however I was when I heard them. That phrase, “a long […]