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Our Thanksgiving Week Mahalo
If you were part of the Ho‘ohana Community involved in Talking Story, the Managing with Aloha Coaching project, or Say “Alaka‘i” (and Ho‘ohana ‘Ōlelo — remember that?) today’s posting will look...
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Going Forward into 2013, with Aloha
With each New Year, I think about how our 19 Values of Aloha have evolved as timeless, yet newly-freshened themes because of our past year’s influences. What has strengthened about each one, and where...
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Inaugural Address 2013: “We are made for this moment.”
I like words. I love using vocabulary as the practical yet robust tool it is. I think language is one of our profound human blessings, unique to our species and magical in our expression of it. To...
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Readiness, Good Impatience, and Maintaining our Ignorance
You may have seen this if you follow me on Twitter: The signs are all pointing in the same direction… my 2013 word seems to be READINESS. The rub, of course, is in what I’ll be getting ready FOR. These...
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Purposeful Following
I’d like to follow-up with a bit more on the concept of ‘stellar followership’ mentioned 2 postings before this one: [If you got here via searching the keyword, this article is NOT about social media...
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Can everyone be a Partner?
Yes. In our Managing with Aloha Language of Intention they can. It’s core to our KĀKOU value alignment. Our vocabulary drives our intention. ‘Employee’ is not a word I use much anymore, and never in my...
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How to Listen
I read an excellent article by Bella Bathurst for Aeon Magazine, and want to share it with you for our Managing with Aloha and Language of Intention reflection. Bathurst titled her essay “How to...
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Hana ‘eleau: Working in the Dark
Work. As HO‘OHANA, good work has become my mission: I want people to have a legacy they’ve attained through doing great work, and nothing but. I think of Managing with Aloha as our very active Ho‘o...
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Managing with Aloha’s Lexicon Morphology
Dear Readers, I have constructed a NEW Reference Page for you; a MWA Conceptual Index. Before I link you over there, let’s review the foundational building blocks which have led to it — Let’s do what...
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Winter Readiness for Alaka‘i Managers
Preview: This is a post to include in the manager’s self-coaching toolkit. “Begin with the end in mind” …has long been a mantra for me (mahalo nui to Stephen R. Covey, for sharing it within his 7...
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Managers Make Promises They Can Keep
I’m not a fan of most reality shows, but one I do enjoy watching is The Voice, NBC’s effort to reinvent Fox’s American Idol. A significant part of NBC’s reinvention is giving the audience an amusing...
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Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou Kākou — Happy New Year my friends! There are many who choose a word, or a phrase, or a theme to succinctly describe their prediction or personal persuasion for the year to come....
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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...
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Conversational Catch-up ~ with Aloha
A good finish, is a great lead-in. January can feel like a rather odd month for me, and for my SLC coworkers and partners. It’s odd in that business wise, we’re likely to be working on a few December...
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Change it up with Value Pairings
Value Your Month to Value Your Life When people ask me, “What’s the best way to start ‘managing with Aloha’ in everyday practice?” I always recommend that they commit to some kind of value of the...
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On November 4th, your Civic Duty calls. Answer, and answer well.
There is a rather popular saying in Hawai‘i right now, and it goes like this: “No vote, no grumble.” What mostly happens however, sad to say, is that people don’t vote, yet keep grumbling. Hawai‘i has...
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Lost in Internal Monologues
After publishing this: Nothing’s Final in the Managed with Aloha Workplace, I happened upon an essay on Medium with this coaching: Don’t Get Lost in Being Right. – 5 Steps to Reducing Rage and Having...
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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...
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Speaking with Aloha: Affirmations for Alaka‘i Managers, Round 4 with Markers
Our Managing with Aloha Markers: Looking back: If we put all the holiday stuff aside, as joyful as it has been, we primarily had 3 things going, and still do. 1st our values constant: we have shifted...
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“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...
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