Preface: A shorter version of this post was originally shared in my weekly newsletter—subscribe, and join our Ho‘ohana Community of Managing with Aloha practitioners. When I’m asked for a quick definition of the value of Alaka‘i, I’ll regularly respond that “it’s leadership which starts with self-leadership.” In my view, you cannot presume to lead others […]
Sunday Mālama: Self-development hits home
The ‘home’ of my post title is me, myself and I, and I’m writing this in the hope you start to think about your home-in-self-health that way too. I had coffee and conversation with a business coach recently, and as we meandered through a myriad of subjects, we landed on talking about different self-development approaches. […]
Sunday Mālama: Are your projects and your ideas in sync?
Sense of Place: It’s January, the month of resolutions, goal-setting, and life’s way finding. In a recent newsletter, I shared this with the Ho‘ohana Community; Two Choices: The Change I Choose. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my own experiences with making New Year’s resolutions, it’s this: a) Make as few of them as possible, […]
Looking back to Hō‘imi Forward
A year-end Exercise in Positive Expectancy Hō‘imi is another Hawaiian value, one that blends parts of Managing with Aloha’s ‘Imi ola (create your best possible life) and Ka lā hiki ola (hope, promise, and optimism), with generous helpings of Nānā i ke kumu (look to your source, particularly with Sense of Place). Hō‘imi is a […]
Your Responsibilities: Kuleana Joy or Clutter?
Responsibility. It’s quite the heavy-hitter, isn’t it. Along the ins and outs of a lengthy working career filled with goal setting, initiative sharing and strategic objective plotting, I learned something unshakeable and consistent about responsibility. Responsibility rules. Once your sense of responsibility about something asserts itself in your psyche, it will rule all else. It […]
Sunday Mālama: Stretching your 8 Hours
When Samuel Gompers, who led the labor group that organized this particular iteration of the 8-hour movement, was asked, “What does labor want?” he responded, “It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.” And to me it seems significant that it’s not 8 hours of, say, “leisure” or “education,” but “8 hours of what we […]
Our Value Immersion for May & June, 2017: Ho‘okipa
Ho‘okipa The hospitality of complete giving Welcome guests and strangers with Aloha Do you ever get the feeling the world is conspiring somehow, to reinforce circumstances or issues you’ve had on your mind? It’s not uncommon, especially in a world so crazily over-connected, as ours seems to be these days. You get some kind of […]