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Back to the Beginning
So vacation is over, and it’s time to return to work. You can ease in, find your place, and go with the flow, or you can go back to the beginning. My preference has always been going back to the...
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Accept your Small Wisdoms with Grace
I had an interesting conversation with a young manager: She was quick to beat herself up for her youth and inexperience, feeling she hadn’t paid her dues yet, and could claim any lessons learned. Hers...
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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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Thanksgiving Blessings and Aloha
Happy Thanksgiving my friends, I have always loved November, for it is a beautiful month of thoughtfulness and reflection. This day in particular, Thanksgiving Day, is one that shines brightly with the...
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The First Time and the Insider’s Advantage
Preface: This is a freshened-up reprint of a short article I had initially published for Lifehack.org back in May of 2006. I have just returned from a trip, and a couple of my travel experiences...
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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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They seem happy enough. — Goal!
“They seem happy enough.” Does that sentence bother you? It bothers me, for it was said by a manager about his team. Things are not always what they seem. And why “they” instead of “we?” Is there...
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The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Parts
… and there is no better example of this adage than a Human Being. Dear Manager, Here is one of those questions which constantly bounces around in your people’s heads about you, though they never say...
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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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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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When Children Sleep, Angels Whisper
I took my annual visit to the Talking Story archives this morning, in honor of my Dad’s birthday, and decided our Papa Angel whispers need to bless these blog pages too. Hau‘oli lā hānau ke Lani Papa ~...
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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...
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On Christmas, You’ll be at Work
This was originally published on Christmas Day of 2008, appearing on Say “Alaka‘i,” the weekly business column I had then written for the Honolulu Advertiser, (thus the Hawai‘i community references)...
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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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Managing with a slimmer Thanksgiving
I used to think that Thanksgiving was a blissfully simple holiday: Everything focused on the making of a feast that celebrated a good harvest, whether grown or bought, and then there were delicious...
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Are you approachable?
Ready for a follow-up to this? Desk time, Face time, Ho‘o time. When I say ‘face time’ what do you instantly think about? One of my own instant word associations, is approachability, especially now,...
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Values are Shaped by a Heritage of Doing
We choose our values, and our values can, and will change, yet there’s little doubt that our values initially come from our parents and early caregivers before our own choices are made. I recently read...
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Goals Change. Values are Forever.
Preface: I must start by giving credit where credit is due ~ I copied my title from Matt Cheuvront because I loved it so much, to the point of jumping out of my chair when I first read it, yelling...
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The difference between Should and Should-ing
‘Should-ing’ isn’t a word that’s made it into the dictionary yet, far as I know. Yet should-ing is probably one of the most useful words I know, part of my vocabulary for a dozen years or so, thanks to...
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Issues, Actions, Opinion, and Self-Managing with Aloha
I tend to stay away from commenting on highly contentious, emotionally charged ‘news’ issues, for I’m fully aware that noisy opinions can make me way too reactive, and less reasonable as well. What we...
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