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 […]
‘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 […]
Ho‘okipa, Time, and Attention.
I pulled up to one of our Hawai‘i Island resort hotels the other day, to valet park my car. The parking valets were out parking the cars of those who had arrived before me, leaving only the doorman to welcome me. That ‘welcome’ however, never happened. Oh, he did approach my car. He opened the […]
In Managing, Do You Balance ON and IN?
I truly hope you’ve been having the same experience I’ve been having with our current value immersion, wherein we’ve tackled a review of the business model we currently work within: “[what] I am encouraging you to target these two months to come, is your business model. By extension, you will be working on your financial […]
ChangeThis: Revisiting the manifesto
Digging into our Ho‘okipa-inspired value immersion, I couldn’t help but think about the manifesto I wrote for the ChangeThis initiative about 9 months after Managing with Aloha was initially released: In presenting my case on ‘why’ manage with Aloha in that manifesto, my focus was on my 2nd target in writing the book in the […]
Giving Meetings: From “Have to” to “Get to”
Meetings. We love ’em and we hate ’em. Me too. I love ’em when I can give them. I usually hate ’em when I have to attend them. Upon hearing that I love running meetings, managers will usually tell me something like, “That’s because you’re a teacher and coach Rosa. Having to hold meetings all […]
Managing with Aloha through the Lessons-Learned from Current Events
“I don’t discuss politics” in Baby Steps The political drama surrounding General Michael Flynn’s resignation as White House national security adviser is having an effect on business and the workplace as well: We’re talking about it. We seem to have reached a tipping point. It has amused me, how many of my previously silent business […]