Productivity, habits, and hacking— oh my! Today’s Sunday Mālama came from talking story with an Alaka‘i Manager who had followed my writing during I time when I was deeply into productivity hacking. It can get to be quite an addiction! This manager had also participated in a pilot project I led for the Ho‘ohana Community, […]
Bone Structure and Muscle Mass
I am rereading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones for maybe the 7th or 9th time; I lose count. It’s always good, whether you read it from start to finish as written, or just dip in for a chapter a day, skimming those titles to see what calls to you. One morning this past week, […]
Values or Virtues? Both!
The question of “values or virtues” has a single answer for me: Both, please. Whether taken separately or enjoyed together, values and virtues compose a healthy helping of goodness, and I love revisiting one of our Managing with Aloha traditions at this time of year, our Twelve Aloha Virtues. They are Hope, Freedom, Humor, Prayer, […]
Daily Affirmations, Round 2
Practice makes everything better. I lightened up on my blog posts last week, to concentrate on Round 2 of this instead: New on Ho‘ohana Aloha: Daily Affirmations for Alaka‘i Managers. You may recall that we started with a review of our Core 21 precepts of Managing with Aloha, and once we wrapped those up, my […]
New on Ho‘ohana Aloha: Daily Affirmations for Alaka‘i Managers
I have started a new series of daily affirmations on managing better, and I wanted to point them out to those of you who do not subscribe to my tumblr, Ho‘ohana Aloha, or presently follow Managing with Aloha’s LinkedIn Group. Affirmations and Speaking with Aloha To affirm something, is to articulate it clearly in your […]
Curating Value Alignment
When I urged you to “Be a curator” as opposed to a documenter, I was primarily focusing on how we as managers can begin to curate work performance with the objective of strength-building: Curate, and Be Curated. I also said, “Do it for yourself, and [then] do it for those you manage.” so work becomes […]
Curate, and Be Curated
Have you cracked open that gorgeous new journal you got for Christmas? The clean slate we get each January, is an opportunity for managers to employ start-fresh record-keeping. In this era where a smartphone’s camera and voice recorder normally sits in your pocket or is commonly cradled in hand, (and is often of way better […]