RSS

wellness

Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (6) Constellation

"Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

P&G, Microsoft and Sustainability

P&G and Microsoft have both recently strongly committed themselves to "sustainability." P&G's Lafley saying: P&G’s commitment to sustainability is strategic. It is how our company conducts business. ...READ»

walgreen
HEALTH CARE   |  Comment

Can Walgreens Solve the Health-Care Crisis?

Walgreen Co., like many other companies that touch the medical industry, is eagerly eyeing the outcome of President Obama's health-care reform initiative. But no matter what happens in Washington, Walgreen wins. "Whatever ...READ»

Six Levels of Sustainability: (5) Coherence

 "Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

WELLNESS   |  Comment

Six Levels of Sustainability: (4) Collaboration

"Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

Six Levels of Sustainability 3: Cooperation

"Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

Six Levels of Sustainability 2: Conformity

Sometimes sustainability is unsustainableREAD»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Six Levels of Sustainability 1: Compliance

When sustainability is not sustainableREAD»

Sustaining Sustainability

Here at the headwaters of 2009 and the backwaters of the first decade of the 21st century I’ve got the crashing power chords of Rush in my head singing: “Changes aren’t permanent but change is.” Da da Da dum. Da da da ...READ»

Building a Better Performance Review

  For some reason, in the last few months, I and my firm, Interkannections have been involved a lot with performance management and feedback issues. Working with the leadership team of one company, we learned from them that most ...READ»

Sustainable Leadership: Resilience & Responsiveness

「勝って兜の緒を締めよ」(katte kabuto no o wo shime yo) When you win, it's time to tighten your helmet straps. So goes a proverb from the samurai. It relates to the practice of 残心 (zanshin), lingering awareness. ...READ»

Sustainable Leadership: Innovation & Implementation

  Innovation & Implementation is where the rubber hits the road. This is where your desire, commitment, accountability and discipline are put to the test. Innovation & Implementation is all about getting others to become ...READ»

Seven Lessons for Radical Innovation

I highly recommend that you read Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators. Written by Umair Haque, it is a truly astute look at the organizational excellence of the Obama team. Haque identifies seven areas of performance where ...READ»

Sustainable Leadership: Presence

Presence is a constellation on a number of practices. Building presence means evolving your capacities to perceive. To do this means an evolution of:  Action Logic: This means increasing our capacity to perceive and deal with the ...READ»

Bloggers Influence And Shape Opinion

October 15th is a day recognized around the world as Blog Action Day.  An annual nonprofit event, this year's 2008 theme is Poverty.  The event's goal is to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, by posting ...READ»

Engaging the Core of Sustainable Leadership

In a previous post on Evolving Sustainable Leadership I looked at some of the technologies through which leaders can deepen their practice to become more fully engaged with their selves and the people and world around them.The ...READ»

Sustainable Leadership: What Good is a Fast Company if the Road You are on is a Dead End

I hear many leaders (from CEO’s to team leaders) talking about driving change, driving the business,driving results. The question that continually comes to mind when I hear these phrases is: Where? Clear targets exist, clear ...READ»

Key Technologies for Evolving Sustainable Leadership

In my previous post on The evolution of sustainable leadership I wrote: "The evolution of sustainable leadership is commitment to a process of self development that begins with “me” but necessarily expands to include ...READ»

The Evolution of Sustainable Leadership

Sustainable leadership arises from being able to see the world as it is: in its infinite complexity and subtle simplicity. It requires deep capacity to know and reflect on yourself and the multiple implications of your actions. It ...READ»

Doing Different Means Being Different

Our capacity to understand and engage the world is limited by our awareness--what we can perceive. We engage with what we believe the world to be. How we engage with the world is who we are. A simple example is this: If I perceive the ...READ»

Evolving Capacity to Handle the New Complexity

To give you a sense of what I do and where I'm coming from please read below: I'm a consultant, researcher and practitioner committed to the evolution of human and human system capacity to engage the world. It is not just what we ...READ»

FITNESS   |  Comment

Be Beautiful

Hi and Welcome to Be Beautiful. My personal blog dedicated to promoting health, wellness, fitness, fat loss, and stress management.   The thought for today is that "You're outer beauty is a reflection of your ...READ»

The Cost of New Year's Resolutions

Our omniscient government has a list of the most popular New Year's resolutions.  Ironically, each one inidividually leads to a healthier happier life. A wish list?  Perhaps, but if we the people fulfilled these important ...READ»

Syndicate content