I recently added this to my contact page on RosaSay.com (it’s the page where I receive my business inquiries): … let me save you some time as well: I don’t take guest posts, advertising, or requests to read your press release, or promote your product, book, website, service, or blog post… when time runs short, [...]
Reckoning with Role [to Value it.]
June 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Morrison said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” I daresay most people agree with him in primary thoughts about ROLE; that it’s a mask, and [...]
An ROMR Archive Review
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
After I published this: Now boarding; the ROMR Tour of Duty …I took a look at what has organically been added (i.e. not as a specific ‘tour’ or reading path) to our Key 4 category here on the blog since our March 2012 site redesign. There are already 32 articles indexed! The benefit of clicking [...]
Now boarding; the ROMR Tour of Duty
June 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
Duty calls, and we eagerly respond. I am feeling the need to take a little blog-writing tour, a brief tour of duty through what we refer to as Key Concept 4: The Role of the Manager Reconstructed (ROMR). It will be a ‘why we do what we do’ kind of tour. It’s a “little” tour [...]
1-Catch the Good, 2-Tell Them!
June 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
So this happened; I’m touring a workplace right before a coaching session with an executive team, and the manager showing me around introduces me to someone he describes as “one of my lead people, a star.” After a short conversation, and as we walk away, leaving his star behind us, the manager starts to tell [...]
Managing with Aloha’s Lexicon Morphology
May 28, 2013 By 1 Comment
Dear Readers, I have constructed a NEW Reference Page for you; a MWA Conceptual Index. Before I link you over there, let’s review the foundational building blocks which have led to it — Let’s do what we say we do, and be clear on our Why. Let’s briefly revisit our story as Alaka‘i Managers. We [...]
Collect stories. Dispel myths.
May 26, 2013 By 1 Comment
Preface: I wrote this a few years ago, while a contributing author on Lifehack.org, and a recent happening brought it back to mind for me. I, and the managers involved, were talking story about the ‘baggage’ people can carry around with them at work. Collect stories. Dispel myths. Every company has a storied past. Are [...]
