Why the profit motif may have too many “unintended consequences”

I was just reading a New Your Time article titled “When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder” (Click on the title to read the article).  It speaks eloquently about the problem of unintended consequences, the difficulty of being able to accurately predict all the results of our actions.  Hence many of our very well intended [...]

CEO succession and Leadership

In my recent entry I spoke of the challenge of selecting a leader and what we can learn from the current presidential candidates.  In a recent post by Idris Mootee “Visionary Leaders with Purposes Are Not Easy to Replace” he raises the example of Steve Jobs, the visionary leader of Apple Computer. 
I loved his [...]

The importance of Leadership style As President or as CEO

In a recent New Your Times article on the role Carolyn Kennedy played in the Democratic Vice President search team, she made an interesting comment that I thought merited commenting on. 
“I’ve campaigned with him and seen him in large settings,” Ms. Kennedy said, “but to see the way he asked questions, listened, brought people [...]

The importance of empathy for leaders

Empathy and compassion are two traits that are truly hard to come by.  And for most of us it comes out of an experience where we suffer the same fate of another.  Walk a mile in my shoes and then you will know what my life is like, is a famous saying we have all [...]

Change isn’t all that much fun

The other day I spent a half a day with a client going through a lessons learned session.  We had just finished the first phase of pilot implantation for a new way of managing project implementations.  By some measures the pilot was a “failure”, that is it did not achieve the desired outcome at the [...]

Where is Spirit in Life and in Business

Last week I was meeting with a group of CEOs, 8 of us, sharing some of our challenges and seeking advice and support.  One of the men had just finished sharing about the challenges he is facing at home with his son, his own health, and his challenges with falling revenue at work.  Listening to [...]

Are You Experienced…

…have you ever been experienced?
There’s been a lot of discussion over recent years as to the notion that the nature of the U.S. economy is transforming (yet again) from that of being primarily a service economy into an experience economy. This theory was first laid out by Pine and Gilmore in their book, “The Experience [...]

Business is the flow of energy

In a meeting yesterday I was explaining to the VP of Product Development of a $200 million locally headquarted business the underlying concept of the Quantum Leaders’ model of the 21st century business. And it dawned on me that I don’t often share the underlying precept - business is all about the flow of energy.
Let’s [...]

Profit as a metric of the spirtual journy

In my last post I talked about the importance for the CEO and the board to increase the value of the firm, and that this should be a key focus of their responsibilities. I also state that the focus on value creation is perfectly consistent with the idea that business is a spiritual journey.
Value [...]

Business as a spiritual journey

For too long now business operated as a machine of production and in the process has been disconnected from its deeper purpose meaning and values. Because of this organizations and leaders have lost their moral compass. In its place has stood the only compass left – profit and financial gain. Not that [...]

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