June 2008
60 posts
The Joyful Jubilant Learning Take on Grauman’s Chinese Theatre →
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As May 2008 draws to a close, we’d like to say thank you for going to the movies with us, and for sharing your lessons learned too. Over 140 comments were posted here in May – clearly that time we have sat before the big screen munching our popcorn has made significant learning impressions on us! You could say that $4 coke ended up to be a bargain after all…
May 2008
49 posts
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Always Find Your Doubting Thomas →
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“Easy for you to say.”
During my corporate management career, that would be the response I could get from others on my management team at times, whether it was to me directly, with a sigh and doubtful shake of their head, or muttered under their breath as they slumped their shoulders and started to walk away thinking the conversation was over.
It wasn’t. I might give them a bit of a respite, but to be sure, the conversation was not over.
Joyful Jubilant Learning: Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal What? →
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Exciting news! Cody Robert officially joins our Ho‘ohana Community today with a guest posting on JJL! Well, technically there is no “official” way to join the HC, just start hanging out with us :) Cody does that really well in his aloha-filled way too! So come meet him.
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Get Started on Twitter the Value-Based Way: 5 Tips →
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Preface:
This is part two of two postings on Twitter for the three-day weekend. Part one can be read as the previous posting, Learning Twitter with Hawaiian Values.
This is part two of two postings on Twitter for the three-day weekend. Part one can be read as the previous posting, Learning Twitter with Hawaiian Values.
Why Twitter?
It has become our newest challenge within our Brex initiative for 2008: Brave Experiments with Digital Learning.
“To be candid, Twitter sounds idiotic at first. It’s true. But it’s also true it’s changed my life and career a bazillion ways. I’ve gone from homebound mom of two babies under two to solidly booked, traveling around the world and extraordinarily well-networked. All my work now comes from people I know through Twitter. All of it. Not only do all my clients come from Twitter, by the time someone contacts me, they thoroughly understand how my mind works and have already decided I am the one for the project.”
—Global Neighbourhoods: SAP Global Survey: Pistachio’s Laura Fitton
Joyful Jubilant Learning: Rapid Fire Movie Learning →
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April Groves is Mea Ho‘okipa for us this month.
I just added my 5 RFLs there: Comment for April with yours!
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Learning Twitter with Hawaiian Values →
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You may recall that I declared 2008 our year for the Brex Initiative. This is the first of a two-part posting, an update to my newest Brex project: Twitter.
Today: Learning Twitter with Hawaiian Values
Tomorrow: Getting Started in the Value-Based Way with 5 Tips. Also: Bonus Learning Links
“BT is also offering an internal social network. But just like Facebook and Twitter, it won’t work unless it attracts a crowd. Rangaswami can’t force anyone to use it. It would be fruitless to try. To hear Rangaswami describe it, all his team can do is provide tools and watch. There’s a lot to look at… “We’ve spent years talking about the value of the water-cooler conversations,” he says. “Now we have the ability to actually understand what these relationships are, how information and decision-making migrate. We see how people really work.” Why does this matter? The company can spot teams that form organically, and then can place them on targeted projects. It can pinpoint the people who transmit ideas. These folks are golden. “A new class of supercommunicators has emerged,” he says… Good networkers have always had their ways to work around the direct reports and dotted lines diagrammed on company charts. They’ve created informal networks. Now, with social media, they have a fast-expanding set of tools to extend these relationships, and even to change their companies.”
—Beyond Blogs is rife with insight if you consider yourself to be a business person… a must-read.
Managing with Aloha Coaching: To Rock ‘n Roll in Biz is to Fly in the Face of Convention →
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“I don’t have to do it that way!”
“That is 1000% correct, you don’t.”
This simple exchange was the magic of a lightbulb moment two nights ago: I wish I could have captured it with a camera! The woman who said that first sentence to me (I said the second one) said it as a statement of dawning realization; it was not a question. She was charged up, excited, and ready to Rock ‘n Roll.
This posting is about Flying in the Face of Convention, something that may initially sound brash and un-humility-like to you. Not at all, and I hope you’ll read on!
“We leave a message with the press department. A day passes. We wonder if we should try another number before it strikes us how silly we’ve been. We can go straight to the person! That’s what social media lets you do. We leave a comment on Rangaswami’s blog, ConfusedofCalcutta, and promptly get a reply. He’s flying to San Francisco, but he leaves his Facebook and Twitter contacts, along with a cell phone number.”
—Beyond Blogs
Managing with Aloha Coaching: The Not-So-Secret Ambition of Being Indispensable, and 5 Trade-Ups →
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“Pick me.
Choose me.
Love me.”
—Meredith Grey to Derek Shepherd in Grey’s Anatomy
We all have a basic human desire: We want to be needed.
To be needed by other people is to feel important, to feel that our presence counts and is meaningful to others. Life was not meant to be a solo proposition; we are social animals who thrive when we are with more of our own, functioning well within their company, and being truly useful to them. We want to add value, and represent an essentialness.
Sounds good so far. You could even say it sounds like a very worthy goal.
At work however, we have another word for this that has some negative connotations to it: Indispensability.
Presentation Zen: Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters →
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Garr Reynolds has done a book review on Brain Rules, and his posting is a truly terrific example on how he has applied the book to his own area of expertise - giving great presentations.
Read the whole post: Garr has included a slide share he has done.
Sunday Mālama: In Search of the Ultimate Freedom →
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I cannot recall when or why freedom first became such an obsession for me, however I am quite sure that at the time it would have been a rather small word. When I was younger, I could not possibly have known how hugely the quest for freedom would manifest itself in my life…
