Making a Difference While Making a Living

The Role of the Conscious Leader: Facing Edges & Embracing Emergent Process

I note that I have been relatively quiet with my blog posting and external communications in general during the past couple of weeks. While I have been under the weather for over a week (which undoubtedly has something to do with the silence in this realm) and intensely focused on the work at hand, I [...]

April 9, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

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: , , , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Reflections, Working for Good  4 Comments

Foundations

Yesterday the Working for Good founding team met to finalize our formal organizational process, discuss our business development strategy, review current project, and break bread together (we’re really good at that!).
Consistent with the rich organic process by which we have come together, it was so enjoyable and productive, no one wanted to leave when it [...]

January 20, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Working for Good  No Comments

Reflections on the Week of 1.10.10

The second full week of 2010 was quite extraordinary. If I try to characterize it in a word or two some of those that come up for me are movement, signs, early fruit, acceleration, foundations, and can’t forget full and fulfilling!
There was so much energy flowing in and around me that I found myself waking [...]

January 17, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Ten Tips for Working for Good

Last week I posted a piece entitled “Ten Reasons to be Working for Good.” Here is a follow up, with some tips on how to do so. You can find more in depth information and insights into these at workingforgood.com and in my book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living.
1.     Cultivate [...]

January 12, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Working for Good  No 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: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  One Comment

Beyond CSR

Yesterday I moderated a panel at the NetImpact Conference entitled Social Responsibility as a Marketing Tool, with three dynamic panelist – Susan Heany, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Avon, C.A. Webb, Marketing Director at Preserve, and Sarah Endine, Founder and CEO of SweetRiot. At the opening of the session I reflected that neither the panelist [...]

November 15, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  4 Comments

In the flow…on the beam…in the zone…

Have you ever had the experience of being “in the flow” or “on the beam” or “in the zone”? Some refer to this experience as being in a state of grace. Whatever you call it, it is that experience of effortlessness, where time seems to be suspended, and whatever you need to move forward appears [...]

November 10, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Working for Good  No Comments

Focusing on What Really Matters

Yesterday morning I had a conversation with my friend Chris White. Since we hadn’t spoken for a while, we checked in with each other – to catch up on what we were both engaged in and excited about. I told Chris about the recent C3 Summit and how I’ve been asked to serve as the [...]

November 7, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Juggling

At the 2009 C3 Summit last week, creativity expert and event “Orchestrator” Michael Gelb taught us how to juggle. In the context of the Summit, the session was entitled “Stakeholder Juggling,” referring to the Stakeholder Model of management, in which we focus on delivering value to multiple stakeholders, rather than simply focusing on shareholders.
The first [...]

November 2, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Principles, Working for Good  No Comments