Restoration

I’ve been dancing with this blog post since last Saturday, when the theme appeared to me. I recognized that the week ahead (now nearly past) called for a deep level of retreat and restoration, while maintaining full out engagement with the river of activity in my life (parenting, training, building, serving, etc.).

Adobe Creative Suite [...]

January 29, 2010 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, conscious capitalism, conscious leadership, John Mackey, Working for Good Posted in: Principles, Reflections, Working for Good 4 Comments

Transformational Structures & Processes

This was a big week for me, in many ways. One of the highlights of the week was a meeting between the Working for Good Collaborative team and members of the board and management of the SOMO Business Cluster (a Sonoma County-based business incubator) as part of an ongoing process of exploration of collaboration. And [...]

November 22, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, conscious business, conscious capitalism, conscious entrepreneurship, Holacracy, Working for Good Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good One Comment

Not Pushing

When I was younger (but no so much younger than today!), I pushed a lot. Perhaps it was a symptom of my Taurean nature exacerbated by my birth order and upbringing (got to credit something and someone!) And before I write on about how that has changed, I have to admit that my 11 year [...]

October 5, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, Collaboration, conscious business, facilitative leadership, Principles Posted in: Principles, Working for Good No Comments

Conversations

One of the great benefits of releasing my book Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living is the incredible conversations it catalyzes and the fascinating people I meet in the process. Among others, this week I had conversations with Tea Silvestre of Planet Good Radio, Cheryl Esposito of Leading Conversations with Cheryl [...]

September 12, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, Collaboration, conscious business, conversation, East-West Bookshop Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good No Comments

What do you think?

After about a month of working at Seeds of Change, the organic seed (and now, food) company in the early 90s, I made my first visit across town to the warehouse, where the seeds were stored, packed, and shipped. I had spent my first month cleaning up the sales policies and procedures, firing and hiring [...]

September 8, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, conscious business, Working for Good Posted in: Principles, Working for Good No Comments

Nothing is Undone

I had a very strange experience Thursday. At some point during the day, I picked up my iPhone to make a call, and staring at me were the words “Nothing is undone” with no attribution to a sender of this text message. I quickly unlocked the phone to see who sent it and what else, [...]

August 30, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, conscious business, Working for Good Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good 2 Comments

Servant Leadership

Something is in the air about leadership right now. Yesterday I decided to write my post today about Servant Leadership, drawing on copy I wrote for my book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, and related eBook, 26 Principles of Working for Good.
I was delightfully surprised this morning when I read [...]

August 25, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, awareness, conscious business, conscious capitalism, conscious entrepreneurship, conscious marketing, Jim Sniechowski, seth godin, Working for Good Posted in: Principles, Working for Good 12 Comments

Touching

As I reflect on the past week, I recall many “touching” moments – most of them intermediated by telephones and, thus, without physical contact. Those moments were among the highlights of my week.

July 19, 2009 Tags: Authentic leadership, Collaboration, commitment, conscious business, conscious capitalism, Michael Gelb, Working for Good Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good No Comments

Reflection on the Rewards of Discipline

Perhaps the greatest challenge and the richest rewards during the week–as is often the case–were embodied in the dynamic tension between the discipline of doing (working late to keep on track with communications and project timelines, scooting out to the local internet café, etc), the discipline of being (hanging out with Meryl Fé at the park, visiting with our friends and hosts Laura and Andrew Mack, etc.), and the exquisite discipline of integrating both during the most extraordinary AWE (Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs) meeting Thursday afternoon (designed and facilitated principally by Laura Mack) and the Authentic Leadership Dinner (designed by Tana Heminsley, and facilitated again by Laura Mack).

June 19, 2009 Tags: Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs, Authentic leadership, awareness, conscious business, conscious capitalism, conscious entrepreneurship, discipline, Principles, Working for Good Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good No Comments