My title is borrowed from a blog post I recently read and felt compelled to share with the readers of my Ho‘ohana Community newsletter: What do executives do, anyway? by Avery Pennarun, Apenwarr. Pennarun chews on the question by means of a book review: He offers up the answer given by Andy Grove (of Intel […]
Rapid Fire Learning: Practical Managing with Mahalo
Preface: One of the ‘elders’ in our Ho‘ohana Community is an ‘Ike loa learning habit, a month-end practice we named Rapid Fire Learning (RFL). It starts as a private journaling practice, handwritten for self-reflection and much shorter than what follows: I’ve opted to post an excerpt of my own RFL this month here on the […]
Sequential and Consequential Mahalo
My speaking engagements often end with a few minutes devoted to talk story, that wrap-up most refer to as Q&A or ‘question and dialogue.’ While speaking to a group of educators this past summer, one of them asked me, “What are the kinds of things you’ve learned since Managing with Aloha was written and published, […]
Alonui
“Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.” — Dan Sullivan What are the good habits which empower you, and make you feel stronger? One of my Hō‘imi reflections was this: After a ten-year investment ‘dabbling’ in social media, I realized it didn’t qualify for me as a ‘good habit.’ Not Flickr or Instagram, not Twitter […]
Golden Rule Management
Golden Rule Management I’m sure you know of The Golden Rule: “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.” The Golden Rule is the inspiration for what we who manage with Aloha call “Golden Rule Management” and it goes like this: “Do for, and do with others, as you would have them […]
Values represent the good in your life
I’ve just had a run of delivering speeches and workshops to several groups of people, and I’m on a high—Mahalo for being there if you were a part of any of them! If you’ve ever attended one of my presentations, you’ve seen this slide or had these lines printed in your handouts, and you have […]
Response-able: Life Skills in Responsibility
I’m rather fond of getting language, words, and the vocabulary we use daily to do their magic for us. The principle I routinely promote for this with you, is Language of Intention, Key 5 of Managing With Aloha’s 9 Key Concepts: Key 5. LANGUAGE OF INTENTION: Language, vocabulary, and conversation combine as our primary tools […]