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 [...]
The Golden Rule – which one do you run your company with
We all know the Golden Rule from our childhood – Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or love thy neighbor as thyself or any number of other variations.
Then somewhere in our business life we learned another version of the Golden Rule that read – “He who has the Gold [...]
What is a Soulful Purpose?
In my last blog I referred to Idris Mootee’s blog post where he also represents the importance of a corporation’s purpose as key to strategy. No I would like to expand on that and explain why I call it the corporation’s Soulful Purpose.
A corporation is not just a collection of equipment worked on by [...]
Strategy needs a purpose
There is a wonderful blog post by Idris Mootee that I just recently read that I would like to recommend to everyone. (http://mootee.typepad.com/innovation_playground/2008/05/what-do-you-know-about-business-strategy.html) .
I would like to reprint a portion of his post because I feel it was so eloquently stated.
“Purpose is really the heart of any business strategy and should provide the guiding [...]
The Challenge of Investing in People
Have you ever heard a board member, or perhaps even a CEO say, “The Company sure invests a lot in trainings, meetings, and “feel good” stuff, and I wonder if more of those resources and energy went into focus on results whether we would be better off?” When we ask the CEO to focus on [...]
Big Teams - Barriers to Innovation?
In his recent post “Is Design a Team Sports?”, Idris Mootee discusses the role of the individual designer versus a design team. During that discussion he broaches the question as to whether large teams are barriers to innovation. I think that there is a semantic trap in the question, becuase it potentially blurs the [...]
The evolution of the organization – Part 3
The third phase began to emerge in the literature around the late 80s and early 90s and is now becoming more recognized in the life of corporations. I have called this stage the Spiritual stage, not because of its relationship to religion or any specific spiritual path, but because it has all the elements found [...]
The evolution of the organizations – Part 2
The second major stage of organization model started to emerge around the middle of the 20th century. It was heralded by the work of the humanist psychologist like Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and applied to organization life by people like McGregor and Herzberg.
This movement, if one wants to call it that, added another component to [...]