Posts tagged Managing with Aloha
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.
We define HANA ‘ELEAU on Managing with Aloha today. Excerpt:
We use the word ‘good’ quite a lot in our MWA language of intention (Key 5), because GOOD, and the state of being glowing with good, has to come before GREAT in the ways we largely think about it as ALOHA-worthy.
Good work will preface great accomplishments, and any side effects within the doing, are usually the beneficial offshoots of good. Good work is our consequential work leading up to great, happening in smaller, more achievable chunks of rightness. We tend to recognize good more easily than great, for great tends to be rare and more elusive, but it is reachable, and good gets us there. When we feel good, we know it. We also know, that we can feel good more often than we do; a lot of our limits are self-imposed ones.
We who are Alaka‘i Managers do what we do, because everything good about Ho‘ohana for others is our constant goal and purpose. The specifics of that goal will change as people come into our lives: We do our intentional work one person at a time. For us, the task at hand is all about that person, and about what’s best for them as they ‘IMI OLA to seek life and strengthen their faith in their present abilities and in Palena ‘ole, their future capacities (Key 9).
And work? It’s a fantastic vehicle for those future capacities. Work is our enabler, and it delivers our livelihood as we earn our keep. However…
Work can have its’ dark sides to overcome…
“The 3 Sins of Management” was a “Please don’t commit them!” article I published within my Alaka‘i Managers’ Managing with Aloha Toolkit in the early days of my coaching career. It was easy to write, for an unfortunate reason — I saw one, or all of these sins practiced in every single workplace I visited, and I knew we had to banish them from a manager’s practice.
My short list of 3 has stood the test of time: I wouldn’t write it with any different culprits. I worked with a management team on the first sin just this past week, and I ask you to join our fight against its evil villain of avoidance, flushing it out of every one of its hiding places. Being wimpy about confronting our ills doesn’t suit us or serve us: We managers can do better, and be better…
It’s advice you’re likely to hear several times in your lifetime, and read in countless books, essays and articles: “Be true to your values.”
What does it mean?
If you’re one of those “Let’s cut to the chase” kinds of people, the total philosophical view of Managing with Aloha can overwhelm you, I know…
Prepping for the weekend readers in our MWA community: I have added the 3rd Reading Pathway to this resource page just now - If you’re done with the first 2 pathways, jump down to this one:
I recently sat with a college counselor who wanted “the 411″ on Managing with Aloha from my perspective as the book’s author. She’s new in her role with a local college which has used my book in their MBA program for several years now, and she called me for an interview when she began to read it. Our conversation was wonderful in taking me back to the basics, so much so that I re-wrote a FAQ page for www.ManagingWithAloha.com recalling her questions, and the highlights of our conversation.
We’ve been at this — our Talking Story conversation surrounding MWA — for nearly eight years now, a long time as the world of online conversation goes, and I thought you might like to review this with me: Is there any way that you’d like to return to the basics of your MWA foundation?
Read more: Back to the Basics.
Fiddler on the roof - Matchmaker ( with subtitles ) (by guru006)
“Somebody has to arrange the matches.”
On Talking Story today: Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me some Skills ~ it’s the nitty gritty of what Managing with Aloha is all about.
Change is in the air, and Managing with Aloha’s days are numbered…
