Ho‘ohana Aloha

The more I read, the more I’m convinced that reading is a habit Alaka‘i Managers must cultivate. You must. You need to read for your own good. Reading is your window to the rest of our fascinating world, and the world is a wonderfully big, and varied place.

Management consumes us (managemeant even more so). As we dig in to all the details of our daily work, we tell ourselves to “focus, focus, focus” and we get isolated despite all the people who surround us in the workplace.

They’re in the same boat: Our company and its existing network insulates us in a cocoon of directed attention, and we don’t fight it. We may even be grateful: We feel it’s all we can handle right now anyway, and we aim to get better with whatever’s currently at hand.

But we can’t lose sight of this caution: If we aren’t careful, insulation will stealthily morph from comfort to incestuousness and isolation. We hear about certain things in passing, and we say, “When in the world did that happen?”

Looks like a lot of value given here, designed to be accessible through the cloud:

Let me start by saying that what follows is not your typical daily blog post. At more than 7,000 words, it’s intended to be more of a reference guide for anyone trying to plan an exciting international adventure. You’ll have the best experience by bookmarking this page …so that you can come back when you need to reference something.

I was going to publish this as an e-book, but since you’re a traveler and probably don’t need any more files to keep track of, I decided to release it as a comprehensive article that you can always get to wherever you may be on the globe. Enjoy!

One of the things I am promising myself is that I will renew my passport before 2011 is over for an international trip early in 2012 at the latest… Americans (and we Hawai‘i Americans) need to get out more.