Strategic Planning is Obsolete
Yes that’s what I said, strategic planning has become obsolete. Are you surprised that someone who has spent the last 35 years working with executives and Boards of Directors developing and implementing plans to achieve corporate goals and strategies, would now declare strategic planning a waste of time?
What is not a waste of time [...]
Improving Bottom-Line Results: Applying The Living Organization® Model
We often hear from our clients, colleagues, and online audience: “Your model really resonates with my experience of business and it seems to help explain that which is often hard to explain, but does it produce real results?”
Of course, the results business leaders are talking about are the impacts to their organization’s bottom line. The [...]
The Real Challenge of Our Financial System Today: Who is the Ends and Who is the Means?
When I was involved in the venture capital world helping to fund a number of technology startups, one thing that struck me as significant but never voiced by anyone was the disconnect of objectives between the two parties in the transaction.
Entrepreneurs start their companies because of a passion to a vision. Rarely is that vision [...]
Consciousness in Leadership: The New Edge for 21st Century Business
I returned recently from the C3 Summit in Austin TX - that’s the Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism Summit. In attendance were some well known CEOs such as John Mackey CEO of Whole Foods, George Zimmer of Men’s Warehouse, and Casey Sheehan of Patagonia, to name just a few. In addition, we had such luminaries as Jean Huston [...]
What is the New Normal
I was just reading a blog post of a dear friend of mine Barri Carian, who poses the question The New Normal – What is it? (Visit her blog at http://www.ocmetro.com/Blog.aspx?ID=172&AuthorID=59058&t=The New Normal - What is it?
I found this a wonderful question for as she points out the phrase is being used everywhere but just [...]
Are you truly engaging your employees?
One of the most frequently asked questions we get is, how do we truly get our employees really engaged?
“Employee Engagement” is the latest hot topic in management circles but the statistics show that we are not doing a very good job. According to a recent article by Bob Donovan of Chief Executive Magazine, “only [...]
Managing the Context
From time to time we are asked questions about applying The Living Organization™ model to real world situations. I thought it would be helpful to share those queries in our blog.
Many of our employees that joined our firm as we grew don’t seem to be aligned with the original vision we founded the company on, [...]
Energy Flows in Business and Society
The underlying foundation of The Living Organization™ model is that everything is Energy. In the model we draw on this turth to aid us in understanding the dyanmics within an organization giving deeper insight and additional options to helping our organziations grow.
Just as an organization is a living entity directing and transforming energy towards a [...]
Even Welsh recognizes The Living Organization
Well perhaps he didn’t exactly call it that, but in a recent article in Financial Time (3/12/2009) Jack Welch who is regarded as the “father of the shareholder value movement” said said it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains.”
What is he really saying about [...]
The Living Organization™ Model – The Spirit
The key to success is to maximize energy contribution while minimizing the loss of energy as it flows through the system on its way to becoming valued goods and services. But the model is not complete if we think of the flow of energy as just one frequency.
Like light passing through a prism the energy [...]