Making a Difference While Making a Living

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

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

Finding Joy at Work

Each of the conversations end up in explorations of the idea of and real possibilities for collaboration, and in the collaboration conversation, joy appeared.

July 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Discipline

Discipline comes from the root word disciple which meant in the olde school vernacular to place your head in service of the heart.

June 16, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Commitment

Commitment is a powerful force, that moves or, perhaps, aligns with providence .

May 26, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Working for Good  No Comments

No Lost Cause

Thursday night my daughter Meryl Fé and I watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It had been decades since I watched this Frank Capra classic with Jimmy Stewart. Sometimes we all feel like Jefferson Smith, facing the seemingly insurmountable sustained by our sense of purpose, principles, and passion, and will power. As he says towards the end “… and you know you fight for the lost causes even harder than for any others. You even die for them.”

May 23, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Peace Through Commerce®

This coming week I will be moderating the last week of a two-month long Peace Through Commerce eConference at BusinessFightsPoverty.org, the focus of which will be “Where do we go from here?”

May 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

May Flowers

As I reflect on the first week of May 2009, the idea blooming come to mind. As Walter Robb (President & COO of Whole Foods Market) commented to a group of friends tonight, with good soil, you get strong plants, which produce good fruit, and it takes years to build good soil.

May 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections  No Comments

Audacity

Audacity is essential to entrepreneurs, artists, inventors, and other creators and innovators. This posting, written by my colleague and collaborator Julie van Amerongen, celebrates Audacity.

May 4, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Uncategorized  No Comments

Container

Today my colleague and collaborator Elad Levinson of Noble Purpose Consulting and I facilitated the first Working for Good workshop, which we co-designed over the past few months. It was quite an experience.

May 3, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections  No Comments