Preface: This article relates to our OIB tenet on financial literacy: 2. Everyone employed, works ON the business as well as IN it, recognizing that both of those engagement attentions are necessary. All financial information is shared and discussed, with financial literacy pursued as learning crucial to effectiveness in these engagements. —See all 10 Tenets […]
Mad Respect for Competence
In this article: The ‘Ohana in Business (OIB) of Managing with Aloha will relentlessly pursue professionalism via their competence, and the sequential progression of competency toward expertise. —You’ve decided to have an OIB: The ‘Ohana in Business Starts with “Why?” —You’ve decided to be an Alaka‘i Benefactor: The Alaka‘i Benefactor: Sharing in the ‘Ohana in Business […]
Let’s Talk Compensation
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. “I ask you to compensate people well, and consider those people your partners.” —The Alaka‘i Benefactor: Sharing in the ‘Ohana in Business In this […]
The Alaka‘i Benefactor: Sharing in the ‘Ohana in Business
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) […]
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 […]
‘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 […]