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 […]
From Internal Chatter to Language of Intention
When culture-based slogans catch on in a workplace, think of it as the tacit approval of verbal agreement. People are voicing agreement to a value-based feeling or practice, and they are nominating it for your company’s Language of Intention — our essential Key 5 in the Managing with Aloha philosophy — to lend approval to […]
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 […]
Kākou Communications and Our Tribe
Let’s dig in to 2 bits of vocabulary we use in our Language of Intention (Key 5): Kākou Communications, and Tribe as the notion of a community larger than team — I Have often referred to our Ho‘ohana Community as a tribe. Let’s also talk about how the two go together. As a brief preface, […]
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 […]
Language of Intention Feeds the Culture Beast
In case you missed it, this post is a follow-up to this one: In Culture-building, Start with Communication Within that article we talked about 2 things: 1. A healthy culture is an enthusiastic receivership for meaningful work. 2. People within that culture — your peeps — receive best, when good communication practices are in place. […]
In Culture-building, Start with Communication
Give me Culture! I’ve been immersed in our Say Leadership Coaching projects since returning from my summer vacation, to find that culture-building is the desired darling of the training objectives we hear. Energies are high. People feel ready to accomplish more, and they want to feel some traction. They’re stirring with a good impatience for […]