Lokomaika‘i: E ‘ōpū ali‘i “No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.”—Kāvya Agarwal E ‘ōpū ali‘i‘Be as kind and as generous as a chief should be.’—Dr. George Kanahele Lokomaika‘i means “of good heart” and it is often considered the value of generosity. Rather than listing it separately in Managing with Aloha, we weave […]
Culture in the Making: How Grass Roots Movements Happen
Management is about getting things done through other people; it doesn’t get any more basic than that. You will best get things done through others by incorporating the values you share with them, values which embrace collaboration, and values which are fundamental good practices in the business environment. Aloha is the most universal value of […]
There is no Vacuum in an Aloha workplace
Real life lesson: Umair Haque shares a 2 minute read on Medium titled American Karma: “Moral Choice and Human Awareness” which includes this; “What happened to America? The story is very simple. I can tell it in three sentences.” “The right campaigned for a complete implosion of the state, and got it. The left campaigned […]
Brexit, Elections2016, and Witnessing History in the Making
June 23, 2016 will go down in history as Brexit, the day the British voted to leave the European Union. I have been fascinated with Brexit as the voting has happened. Glued to my laptop’s delivery of online news which reported and analyzed the results throughout yesterday evening, I was unable to contain myself, and […]
Better Person, Better Manager, Better Leader. Alaka‘i Batch 24.
Actually, there are two batches, 12 each, and self-coaching has never been easier. Taken separately, we’ve called them The 12 Rules of Self-Management, and The 12 Rules of Self-Leadership, and they came back to mind for me after this: Good person first, good manager as a consequence. We self-manage our own behavior first, and manage […]
Goals Change. Values are Forever.
Preface: I must start by giving credit where credit is due ~ I copied my title from Matt Cheuvront because I loved it so much, to the point of jumping out of my chair when I first read it, yelling “Yes!” and smiling the biggest smile of super-charged energy and happiness. I will joyously grab […]
Winter Readiness for Alaka‘i Managers
On this, our Sunday Mālama for the final day of November 2014, let’s nalu from our feasting ‘thanks’ to the ‘giving.’ This is a post to include in the manager’s self-coaching toolkit, a bring-back from last year, for I’d heard from several managers that this emphasis on readiness had helped them. The idea is to ease […]