Kūlia i ka nu‘u Kūlia i ka nu‘u is the Managing with Aloha value of accomplishment and achievement. The literal translation for Kūlia i ka nu‘u is “strive to reach the summit.” Those who have this value continually pursue improvement and personal excellence. For them, the most satisfying competition is with their previous selves: They […]
“Keep Moving Uphill”
The mountain-climbing analogy is one we’re fond of in the Ho‘ohana Community — it all started with Kūlia i ka nu‘u, Chapter 5 in Managing with Aloha: Kūlia i ka nu‘u is the value of accomplishment and achievement. The literal translation for Kūlia i ka nu‘u is “strive to reach the summit.” Those who have […]
Speaking with Aloha: Be an ~INGer
In Speaking with Aloha, we continue to be ~ingers. An ~inger is a doer. The magic sauce of Managing with Aloha is in connecting our values to dynamic verbs that will drive better behaviors, our actions of Aloha. For instance, that is essentially what our recent year-end / year-begin exercise was all about. Our constant […]
Holiday Zing-ing, inspired by Kūlia i ka nu‘u
I was very cheered by this message, emailed in response to my last post (Just 5 Over the Holidays, 2013) “Rosa, one of the most useful things I’ve learned from your Managing with Aloha blog over the past year, is from your coaching on ‘verbing’ and attaching that ‘ing’ to our words of intent so […]
The 19 Values of Aloha ~ continuously learned and shared
A little over a year ago, I was approached by the editor of Ke Ola to write a business column for her magazine. It was a time when I was pulling back on the Writing with Aloha part of my publishing, but the project she outlined became more and more appealing as we talked about […]
Validating Achievement with MWA Coaching
I will be writing about the achievement of Kūlia i ka nu‘u for the next issue of Ke Ola magazine (which will be published and distributed November/December 2013) and article done, I find I’m still thinking about it quite a bit — that is, about achievement in terms of what we strive for, and why. […]
Managing Basics: Study Their Work
Options and Choices I’m one who has been bitten by the iphoneography bug (and the Instagram bug… ping me if you’re there too :) It’s mostly been the result of mere convenience, for my iPhone is always with me, and my ‘dedicated’ camera isn’t. It was also the result of a forced upgrade to an […]