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Doing the Drill Down: Less is More
Last time: This January, Slow Down This posting continues our January talk-story. When I look back on my working history — not job or career wise, but considering my own Ho‘ohana emphasis as a manager...
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Role Reconstruction: Design your Sweet Spot as Manager
Key 4 in our MWA model for the ‘Ohana in Business, is, The Role of the Manager Reconstructed. (It appears at the end of this post, if you’d like to scroll down for a quick review, or you can take this...
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Value Your Month for One — You
Values equip us and energize us. We have a 7-letter acronym within the Managing with Aloha philosophy: VYMTVYL. It stands for Value Your Month To Value Your Life and refers to the value of the month...
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Management Style by Habit
Preface: This post was written as a follow-up to my recent articles on habit-building (they are listed from newest to oldest on this page.) Theory is all well and good, now let’s make it real for you....
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On Leaders, Leading, and Leadership: The How and Why
First, the vocab basics, to be clear about our MWA context: LEADER – a person, not a title LEADING – a verb, the actions taken by that person who aspires to lead LEADERSHIP – the effective result, or...
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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...
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Balance, 2014
We used to talk about work/life balance — a lot. Nowadays, work/life integration is the phrase in vogue, and I use and prefer it too, particularly when we talk of striving for that sweet spot where...
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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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Got Passion?
passion |ˈpa sh ən| noun ~ strong and barely controllable emotion : a man of impetuous passion. We often think of passion as an indicator of emotional attachment. It’s a noun we tend to think of as an...
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Managing with Aloha’s Learning Landscape: “Know well”
The value of learning might very well be prime example of a value that most of us share, for learning is also a human being’s survival skill. What differs between us, is how much this value reaches...
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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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The connection of Faith and Learning
Inspirational quotes are seen everywhere: What do people actually do after reading them? Let’s read one, and see what we can do, as the Alaka‘i Managers we are. Alan Watts has said, “Irrevocable...
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Nothing’s Final in the Managed with Aloha Workplace
Next, not Final: “That’s final!” is a phrase you won’t hear an Alaka‘i Manager say. They are more inclined to say, “Let’s try this, and then let’s follow up with each other again once we have a track...
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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...
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On Batching: The Fewer the Better
19 Values of Aloha, just made 20, is too much. For this week’s Saturday Archive Aloha, I had queued up Managerial Batching: 1, 2, 5 and 7 as our article for reviewing/ remembering/ repeating. Batching...
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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...
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