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 [...]
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. [...]
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 profit is bad [...]
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 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 distinction [...]
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