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April 2012

• Ka la hiki ola: It’s a brand new day for Managing with Aloha

March 2012

• Back to the Basics of Managing with Aloha
• How to Fill up by Spilling
• We see what we want to see
• Culture-Building: First, understand what Management can be
• I am reading: How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer
• Learning and Weaving: The absorption benefit of your Personal Philosophy

February 2012

• On D5M: Comfort in Listening, achieved when “We press on.”
• Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me some Skills
• Musical Managemeant: Adele 101 for Managers
• The Aloha “of great value” which is February 14th
• Book Review: Reboot Your Life
• If you worked for me

January 2012

• Q&A: Leading up, and Changing Culture
• Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From
• Managers, you need to READ
• Ho‘omau, as nature teaches us to do
• Crossing off the Bucket List
• On Other Days: Creative Structure
• On the 20-hour work week: All in favor?
• An Aloha Business for 2012
• Value Verbing: Theme 2012 with your Aloha Spirit
• What do you know to be sure? Hō‘imi ola.

December 2011

• What’s the meant in Management?

November 2011

• Makawalu: Counting our Thinking
• Fridays with the Alaka‘i Nalu
• When Managers Say the Right Things
• Say Aloha to November and “Nalu it”

October 2011

• All Hallows Eve Values
• How Great Managers Hire: Fit, Role and Relationship
• Managing Energies: Struggle & Ease
• Dear Manager, Who do you want to be?
• Ubiquitous platitude and ultimate backwater
• Self-Leadership in One Sentence
• Lead, Follow or Get out of the way
• Alaka‘i Leadership, Chiefs and Indians
• From In The Trenches, to #Occupy The World
• Be unencumbered
• Financial Literacy has never been more timely: Talk about it
• Lead with Compassion, then Manage for Competence
• “My parents don’t know that I know”
• Calling all Managers: We need you
• Working in today’s ‘Knowledge Economy’
• A Job of any Merit: Your 3 Options in Worthwhile Work
• Whose Confidence Should We Be Talking About?

September 2011

• “They know how to lead — and be led.”
• To Resolve Polarity, Dine and Discuss
• How ‘bout I call you?
• Doing the Drill Down: Less is More
• Does Social Media Qualify as a Deliberate Input?
• Deliberate Inputs
• Must I work this bit alone?
• Noticing. Person to person, face to face

August 2011

• Workplace Culture balances Change and Constants
• Managers Create Culture
• Trump those Old Rules with Your Values
• Preparedness Pays!
• Pure Work
• When it’s in the News, Alaka‘i Managers talk story

July 2011

• Write an About Page, even if for a Readership of 1
• Red, White and Blue Values

June 2011

• Relate, Repeat, Reframe: A little inconvenience goes a long way toward change
• A “wake-up call” isn’t enough

May 2011

• Sunday Mālama: What Sunday should be
• See it, snap a photo of it, look up its story
• Book Review: The Botany of Desire
• Hello? These are your values speaking.

April 2011

• Huddle up
• Managing Strengths and not Standards
• Book Review: Do the Work
• I love Easter
• Older, and okay with that
• What gainful employment ‘should’ do for you
• Why I blog, circa 2011 (and about ‘real books’)
• On the Art of Civilized Conversation
• A D5M Listening Goal: Identify Partner Gifts
• The identity of Who you Are and What you Do
• Book Review: The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
• Are you doing the Daily Five Minutes yet?

March 2011

• Book Review: The Starfish and the Spider
• Distract, Interrupt, Intercept, Disrupt
• Encore: Learning my 9 Boxes
• Manager as Teacher; Learning to Learn
• TED Talk: Barry Schwartz on our Loss of Wisdom
• Required of all Managers: ‘Common Sense’ only it isn’t
• Native Tongue, help and hindrance
• Nature’s watery treasure chest
• Waiakauhi Pond will heal. We will too.
• Book Review: Karma Queens, Geek Gods & Innerpreneurs
• Revisiting Value Immersion: Where are your hot spots?
• Your Edge comes from your Inconvenience
• Weekend Project: Qualify the Automatics
• Are you the box needing a poke?
• The G in Goals stands for Greatness
• Annual Appraisals: What should I say?

February 2011

• Performance Reviews: There’s a much better way
• Curiosity tears down walls
• Be a Noble Consumer, and Pay
• You can’t “Be fair.” Be consistent.
• Don’t Just Add, Replace. Own the 100%
• A Valentine of Aloha
• Can you fail with The Daily Five Minutes?
• Your People are Your Daily
• Prepping for Ho‘ohana with Financial Literacy
• Goodreads Review: Winter Garden
• Managers: Have you ended all Workplace Censorship?
• Lovingly, The Weekend
• Managers: Promote a Culture of Asking
• Kindle, a year later
• Downsizing gets cool
• Verb your own story: Read , Write, Converse

January 2011

• Goodreads Review: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
• There’s no refrigerator space for inspiration
• Managing well is better than Leading
• Goodreads Review: Under the Tuscan Sun
• Books Come to You at Least Twice
• Accomplishments when Lifestyle is Sweet
• What’s been your Maker’s learning sweet spot?
• On my Best Habit List: Play Tourist
• Conversation “is a pain”
• Ho‘ohana Aloha: Let’s Talk Tumblr
• So you want a MWA jumpstart. Do the Daily Five Minutes.
• To buy Local, buy from the Maker — if you can
• Wayfinding, ‘Ohana and Reunions
• Along with your talent, bring me Fresh You
• Value Your Month to Value Your Life
• Write your story of leadership
• Put that thing down!
• A Saturday Recap: 2011 ~ First 8 Days
• Your values and your DNA
• Value Immersion, Value Steering... Why?
• January Coaching: What are you really managing?
• Value Alignment for Projects
• Value Alignment for 2011

December 2010

• Wayfinding to Use Your Best Clues
• Ignore the Resolution Bashers
• Get a Jump on it (and on 2011!)
• Are you able to discount your own certainty?

November 2010

• Holiday Heaven

October 2010

• In the Land of Shouldlessness

September 2010

• Set a Good Example
• Ho‘ohana work, and your Labor
• Spread the Good Read
• ‘Imi ola ~ Choose Your Change

August 2010

• Summer Ho‘omaha

July 2010

• Huddle up: We’re Building Sense of Place
• The Next Truman
• Managing with Aloha and Our Community Learning
• What is the work you do?

June 2010

• The Grit
• To be Alaka‘i, be First
• Rapid Fire Learning | June 2010
• What (else) does your workplace finance?
• Wā Ho‘omaha na ‘Ohana
• Cry baby? Not me!
• Star Advertiser, it’s all about the people
• When Learning gets Systemic
• What is the Learning we managers will Curate?
• Reprise: The 10 Beliefs of Alaka‘i Managers
• Drive well: Pay People Enough
• Have you caught the curve ball?
• The State of our Learning and the Demand for Curation

May 2010

• Grandpa Joe, the Soldier
• Say “Alaka‘i” is Returning to the Mothership
• Rapid Fire Learning | Take 5 from May, 2010
• Turn up the Volume and Manage Loudly
• The Real Problem with Leadership
• Your Aloha Spirit, Tightly Curled and Regal
• Beautiful Confidence
• How do you define a great meeting?
• Speaking. I LOVE it. That’s why I charge for it
• Bring Back the Staff Meeting
• Sunday Reading, Feeds and Blogs — Help!
• PÅ«‘olo Mea Maika‘i: Playlists
• Helping Without Hurting
• What are you leading?
• What are you managing?
• Willing and Able to be Human
• Imagine having a Thought Kit

April 2010

• The Transforming Power of Ho‘okipa in Business
• Are we seeking Hospitalitarians?
• “Free” never is, so don’t ask
• Embrace your Systems Thinker
• Rapid Fire Learning | Take 5 from April, 2010
• Manager’s Skill: Separate Signal from Noise
• The dawning of a new day, 5 years later
• Model Me This
• An Erosion of Trust
• The 1-2-3 journey of Alaka‘i Managers
• How Alaka‘i Managers get work to Make Sense
• Revamping your Business Model? Enjoy the Study
• A Ho‘ohana Talk Story: April 2010
• Ready? Become an Alaka‘i Manager in 5 Weeks!
• Creating Jobs? Let’s start with the Job Maker
• About Managing with Aloha: Has it intrigued but overwhelmed you?
• Managing with Aloha now on Kindle!
• Choose your Values to Make your Decisions

March 2010

• Job Creation Employs Strengths, Then People
• Rapid Fire Learning | Take 5 from March, 2010
• Ho‘ohana: Redefine ‘work’ to make it yours
• The Energy of Gainful Employment
• Who Will Be Our New Heroes?
• We buy, and work, with our hearts
• The Alaka‘i Manager as Job Maker
• Learning Managing with Aloha: 9 Key Concepts
• Spring Cleaning at Work: Junk is not the Stuff of Legacy
• When Learning Gets Overwhelming
• 2010 Mālama for Say Leadership Coaching
• Be the Best Communicator
• Are you a Linchpin, a Genius, or an Alaka‘i Manager?

February 2010

• Tsunami Scare February 27, 2010
• Rapid Fire Learning Returns to Talking Story
• Failure isn’t cool. Neither is weakness
• Feeling Good Isn’t the Same as Feeling Strong
• Aloha your Monday, Pō‘akahi kākou
• Weekend Project: Hō‘imi your Trusted System
• The 3 Secrets of Being Positive
• What Your Big Ideas Do Best
• Valentine’s Day is Aloha Blooming
• Weekend Reading: Let’s go Blog Rolling
• What if your business got sick?
• Let’s have fun with The American Twins: Caption the photo
• The Great Reveal of Undercover Boss: Now what?
• The Care and Feeding of your Talking Story Subscription
• Take 5 in 2010 Game-Changing; a February update
• Unconditional Acceptance, Nature and Nurture
• You’ll Be the Company you Keep
• February’s Strengthening. We know it as Love.

January 2010

• Once a JJLer, always a JJLer!
• They like you. But do they perform for you?
• Values are the Bedrock of Hard Reality
• Commitment, Character, and Culture
• Tomorrow is the Future Too
• Wealth is a Value
• Small Wins Create Big Domino Effects
• A Positive Expectancy for 2010
• Kukupa‘u: Be Enthusiastic!
• The Tech Life of a Manager, 2010 and Beyond
• Drink your Kool-aid
• Collaboration? Bah, humbug!
• The Real Day 1: It’s Ho‘o Day
• At JJL: Open Loops, Meet Sweet Closure
• Pelmeni
• At JJL: Thrive in 2010 by Learning Healthy Living

December 2009

• For 2010, with Aloha
• Find Your Strongest Life. Yes, You.
• Get the Gift of Learning Throughout the Year
• A Grown-up Christmas List for Alaka‘i Managers
• Let’s Leap over the Leadership Hurdle
• Take 5 in 2010: A Game-Changing Ho‘ohana
• If you Ask for Initiative, Grant it
• The Challenge of Political Leadership
• Coach more, Urge more, Support more
• Reduce your Leadership to a Part-time Gig in 2010
• Decking the Halls of my Head Space
• Surf the December Tidal Wave

November 2009

• Become a Better Listener with these 5 Skills
• Living Mahalo with my Dailies
• Black Friday our Talking Story way
• Thank you for being here
• Alaka‘i ABCs: What do you stand for?
• The D5M Ruzuku Report (and 2 New Challenges!)
• Tickle Your Toes
• Shy About Your Success?
• Tacit Approval: Don’t you dare give it!
• Should we follow you?
• PUEO Reaching for College
• Students Need the Life Skill of Caring and Speaking Up
• Guilt-Free Self-Leadership: 12 Possibilities
• Challenge Your Most Brilliant Self: Burn Your Boats
• 5 Minutes/ 3 Values/ 9 MWA Questions

October 2009

• Learning the Daily 5 Minutes: Our Weekly Review
• The Daily 5 Minutes: How to Get Started
• Ready, set, alpha!
• D5M-ing your Decisions: See with your ears
• So, you think you’re approachable huh?
• The Daily 5 Minutes: An exciting alpha test!
• Closing in on Sweet Closure
• Sense of Workplace: It’s Milk, Maslow and You
• Who leads? You do. In the Sweet Spot
• I can’t let this one go: A Sense of Workplace Call to Action
• Our Ka‘ana Like Law of the Harvest
• Hibernation 2009 #FridayFlash
• Share your Sense of [Work] Place
• We Learn Best from Other People
• Don’t get New Ideas caught in the ASA Trap!
• Huddle in 5: Celebrate the Positive, Big and Small
• Where Planning Ends and Projects Begin
• A Copy of the Best is Still a Copy
• The Ho‘ohana Story of Your Year
• October’s Ho‘ohana: Sweet Closure

September 2009

• Is it Time for Your Alaka‘i Abundance?
• The Talking Story (occasional) Sunday Paper
• The Garage Sale #FridayFlash
• It’s Okay Not to Know
• No Excuses
• Cultivating a Well-Behaved Mind
• How to Get to the Heart of Great Coaching
• The Truth Will Set You Free #FridayFlash
• In Search of a Tray Table
• Aspire to be Appreciated
• “Paper or Plastic?” Wrong Question.
• A Good Ruthlessness x3
• Improve your Reputation with 1 List
• Just Once in Our Lifetimes! 09-09-09
• Labor Day Aloha
• I want a Labor Day about Ho‘ohana
• The Manager #FridayFlash Fiction
• Numerology for Managers
• Ho‘ohana Community Focus Delivers Harmony
• Leadership Needs a Numbers Breakthrough

August 2009

• Our Most Important Words
• A Say “Alaka‘i” Flashback for #FridayFlash: The Vision
• The Leadership/Management Partnership Toward Vision
• Time to Seize Control. Be Commanding!
• Luscious, Liberating, Luminous Lustrum Learning
• 5 Twitter Tips for Managing
• An idea is a fragile thing
• 5 Twitter Tips for Leading
• Star-power leadership: Will you be ready?
• Following is NOT a Passive Activity
• First Looking, and then, Changing
• 10 Publishing Lessons for Summertime 2009
• Red-tipped Rightness
• Learn a 5-Step Weekly Review, and Make it your Habit
• Leading encourages Making. Embrace the Mess
• Add Conversation to your Strong Week Plan
• What does an August Summer hold for you?

July 2009

• Our 5th Year Celebration! Announcing TalkingStory.org
• Day Last as Feature’s First: An invitation
• The 30-70 Rule in Leading and Managing
• “What’s in it for me?” is a Self-Leadership Question
• Management is What and How
• Focus Front and Center Please
• Leadership is Why and When
• A new top coat
• “I get a lot of email” is your problem, not mine.
• How to Stop Micromanaging: Part Two
• Two Gifts: Values and Conversation
• Webwide talking story talks back: Your feedback these last 30 days
• The Talking Story (occasional) Sunday Paper
• How to Stop Micromanaging: Part One
• Your Alaka‘i Language of Leadership
• What the heck do you mean by ‘Achievable?’

June 2009

• Do you Teach?
• Great Mantra: Make it Easy, Make it Hard
• Competing Strengths in The Battle of the Learner and Over-Achiever
• Walking my Talk: A Letter to my Legislators
• 3 Ways Managers Create Energetic Workplaces
• The Biggest Sin in Business Today
• Alaka‘i Managers Coach, and they Facilitate
• The 2 C’s of Technology and Early Adoption
• Kamehameha’s Legacy of Values
• Lead the Slow Charge
• When is ‘Good’ good enough?
• Do you define your Leadership Greatness?
• On JJL in June: The Learner’s Progress

May 2009

• If you want to know, ask!
• While the Big Cat was Away
• Life Imitates Art

April 2009

• Looking for me? I’m Springing into Summer
• Be a Deskless Manager: Ho‘o!
• Our RFL Recall: Are you Remembering or Learning?
• Pinwheel Plumeria for my birthday
• How do you use your manager?
• Color Outside Your Lines
• Quiet Energies
• You are Your Habits, so Make ‘em Good!
• When Made to Stick Will
• Can We Still Opt Out of Technology Today?
• See the Abundance?
• Become the Tax Man: Groom Your Self-Discipline with Deadlines
• Hiding from the Web is Foolish: 5 Steps to Smarter
• Hau‘oli la hanau to Dwayne ‘Joe Cool’ Melancon
• Has ALAWB09 got you into the RTTS Habit yet?
• The Spirit of Joanna
• “I’d rather have been a poet.”
• Who says you can’t do that?
• Aloha ‘Apelila. How about some April Lightness?

March 2009

• Writing is for Thinking
• Attention and Intention: Right back atcha Rosa!
• Thank you for subscribing to Talking Story
• How do you Learn? Really, how?
• Rapid Fire Learning for March 2009
• What’s your Calling? Has it become your Ho‘ohana?
• Do you ask Good Questions?
• Who gives you your Second Opinion?
• You are alive for a reason
• How Managers Matter in a Healthy Culture
• That life? It’s all yours!
• How To Better Honor Past Histories
• Potluck Suppers and Brownbag Lunches
• The Digitally Savvy Workplace
• Communication is our Killer App
• Are you telling your stories?
• Talking Story, Meet Twitter
• It’s here! A Love Affair with Books 2009 is off and running!

February 2009

• Reading to Talk Story about
• What is the Professional Brand Equity of a Manager?
• Want fresh? Look for green.
• Seven Ways to Assess Your Personal Brand Assets Beyond A Job
• Imagine Joy in Flight. Reason is not required.
• A Triple Bottom Line for Hawai‘i
• Elevation by Conscious Endeavor
• Read with me and kill boring
• Ban Stock Signage and Get Creative!
• Those Critical First and Last Impressions
• I want to be a Thinker Tinker!
• Bring Hawai‘i to the Workplace by ‘Talking Story’
• Want different? Be a Squeaky Wheel
• Decision Making: How do you do it?
• Coming out to play
• And in Aloha our government officials shall lead us
• Book Review: A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
• Work is Personal: The Semantics
• Aloha Training? Make it all personal
• Love (and Learning) is All You Need
• Money isn’t evil

January 2009

• Set your price, charge it, and stand behind it
• How creatively could you fill a found hour or two in the afternoon?
• S-e-l-l can’t be a 4-letter word in business
• Following along on Twitter, 500 strong
• Rapid Fire Learning for January
• Never discount your intuition: Trust in it, and groom it
• A Feast of Visual Patriotism
• A Book Review of Seth Godin's Tribes: Good Message, Rotten Context
• Welcome to a Brexy Presidency
• Where were you on Inauguration Day?
• What we can learn from this Inauguration Day
• Securing employment today requires more homework
• We’re supposed to be good at being ‘local’
• Job Competencies for 2009: Let’s figure them out
• Book Review: The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, Book 1) by Jasper Fforde
• Desire Always Precedes Change
• [Driving for] Coffee in Paniolo Country
• Milk’s good” Got RISH?
• There are 2 Decisions Made with Every Hire
• Job-hunting? Don’t apply and fill, create and pitch
• Flickr-Salvageable Shreds
• Ho‘ohana ‘ÅŒlelo, the January ’09 issue (and a BHAG announcement)
• JJL January 2009: Learning Joyful Eating
• Aloha January 2009
• My hook, not ladder
• Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou: Hawaiian Values for 2009

December 2008

• Learning Links at JJL: Bring on the New~ Success. Yours and Ours.
• Photo of my day: December 29, 2008
• Alaka‘i Archive Love 2008
• How about taking a photo of YOUR day, selected in the coming year?
• On MWAC Today: The Virtue of Vitality
• The Top 7 Business Themes on my 2009 Wish List
• A Boxing Day Rapid Fire Learning: Have You Got Five for the Christmas Box?
• It’s Christmas, and You’re at Work
• Mele Kalikimaka ~ Merry Christmas!
• Web communities are so amazing!
• The real meaning of Christmas
• The Holiday Gift of Workplace Values
• Wonder, Gratitude and Joy
• Staying Positive in a Negative Workplace
• Ti Leaf Colors for Christmas
• Good Delegation Can Happen in Every Conversation
• The Friendship Factor; Be the Best Boss Instead
• MWAC: Running with Virtue
• The Writing Habit: Best Gift You Can Give
• Joyful Learning: A Measure of Success
• Hawai‘i’s Primary Recession-Proof Strategy is Ho‘okipa
• Business and Busyness: A world of difference
• At Litemind: 66 Best Personal Excellence Tips
• Have you chosen a Virtue for your December?
• December 7th, and thinking about Pearl Harbor today
• Leaders don’t do all the work
• “Do you know what I remember most?”
• Quotation Worthy Success
• Good companies make us healthier”“ but what is healthy?
• Are you a Flickreeno?
• Our Ho'ohana Community Schedule for December

November 2008

• What’s in the Aloha name? What’s in your name?
• Farmer’s Market Flowers
• November 2008: Our final weekend
• Our Thanksgiving Day Management Mahalo
• Baby Roses for your Thanksgiving table?
• Ho‘omau: Our ‘Good Muscle Exercise’ of Persistence
• RFL for November: What have you learned this month?
• Leaders Don’t Wait for Any Cycle
• Tuesday Coaching on MWAC: We wrap up Ho‘omau today
• Golden Quiet
• MWA3P is about MWA-aligned Productivity
• Your Aloha has created Sunday Koa Kākou
• Weekend Promise?
• What is Intellectual Honesty?
• Management vs. Leadership: Power up your vocabulary!
• Today’s the day! Say “Alaka‘i” is now live!
• Tuesday Coaching on Ho‘omau, our Value of the Month
• Be an oddball or deviant: Vote often
• Want Better? Ho‘omau. Adversity makes us stronger.

October 2008

• Keep Talking about your Words
• Working with Your Passion
• Got Influence?
• Talking Story: Changes versus Constants
• Shedding the Blinders of Age and Wisdom
• Management Responsibility 101: Optimism
• Beyond Those 5 Senses, is Sense of Place+
• October 2008: Out of the gates and running

September 2008

• The Bailout Failure need NOT be Your Failure
• RFL Sept. Edition #2: My 90-Day Experiment at Day 15
• Good book? What was it about?
• Ho‘ohana; Your Intentional Work
• “Help! I can’t come up with my Ho‘ohana.”
• To Ho‘ohana, Change Your Assumptions
• Day 15: Value your Month, Value your Life with Ho‘ohana
• Embracing What I Learned From My Friends (This stuff is good!)
• Can Talking Story go Short and Deep?
• Ho‘ohana is Utterly Useful
• Welcome September, and Happy Labor Day!

August 2008

• Too tired to have an opinion, too tired to care
• Coaching on Self-Leadership: Is your growth plan set?
• On this particular day, it started with the Ford Island Theatre
• How Do Adults Grow?
• Weekend Coaching
• Opportunity
• Blue Chair Weekend
• A Day for 8: Life is Like a Game You Cannot Lose
• How about, “What I want conversational good human beings to know”
• “Frankly Rosa, I’m not that interested in business stuff.”
• Happening in our Alaka‘i August

July 2008

• Having a meeting? Add silence to the agenda
• ROI: The old guys were right after all.
• Sunday Reading with the Times: A Literacy Debate
• Let’s Talk Story: When business is not great, how do you spend your time?
• Who’s doing the thinking right now, and what do they have to say?
• July Tuesdays: Learning in the MWA way
• We are Learning from Pictures
• Learn about Luana this Weekend: I know you have it in you!
• ‘Ike loa: Boldly about Knowledge
• Say Aloha to July 2008!

June 2008

• Weekend Warrior (Mine was a Wiliwili tree)
• Reach into the Weekend
• It's RFL Time: Rapid Fire Learning for June
• See me when the “ing” stuff is over
• Get permission or ask for forgiveness?
• Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?
• Your GET TO Guarantee: 9 Good-News Examples
• How ‘bout mixing up in some Voice Stew with me?
• Great Web Meetings: Learn more about them
• Your Compensated-for Weakness: Now Look Inside
• From Bothersome Noise to Soothing Sound
• Learning from Papa: Being the Boss, Shave Ice and Rainbow Colors
• Calvin’s Mamaki Tree ~ One month later
• A “new day” for what?
• Daybreak at Ka‘Å«pÅ«lehu and The Lesson of the ‘Opihi
• Say Aloha to June with Ka lā hiki ola

May 2008

• Over Capacity, or Under Serving?

March 2008

• Let’s Talk Story: What’s new with you?
• Are you an Underappreciated Workplace Genius?
• Don’t blame the economy; Show me what you’re made of!
• No, nobody really does this (anymore), right?
• Have some eggs this weekend
• The 20 Benefits of Peer to Peer Coaching (and the MWA Way of doing it)
• Coaching Your Beginners
• Talking Story on St. Patrick’s Day
• Book Review: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
• A List to Help with Your Better Conversations
• From Book Yourself Solid: How to Talk About What You Do (a mini review)
• When Less is More
• Business Parable Books: Yay! or Nay?
• No more jerks for managers! Ho‘ohanohano to the rescue.
• Listening with an Open, Positive Mindset
• Aloha to February for one more day
• A Month of Reading Recommendations, with Conversation

February 2008

• How Writing Flow Can Happen For You Too ~ 9 Ways
• Rapid Fire Learning For February
• Aloha Friday Reading
• Fall in love with any Book lately? Write a Review on it!
• You know you love writing when you don’t have to keep it
• Learn to Finish Conversations Well Redux
• More on Digital Learning, Organizational Culture, and Obsolete Skills in that Culture
• Excelling as Elders
• No guts, no glory. No love, no aloha.
• A Love-Minded Aloha Challenge for Valentines Day
• “Just what could you pull off in 90 days?”
• Is Forever a good business strategy?
• Being a “Leader” is what managers do too
• Can you claim only 3 words?
• How good (and gracious) a Receiver are you?
• “I am a leader.”
• You can start to Talk more at work by Singing!
• The Reconstructed, Rejuvenated, Newly Respected, and Never Underestimated Role of the Manager
• Beautiful Buildings worth Talking About
• When you have a hard time Choosing, do you know Why?
• The Best, Yet Most Underutilized Tool for Communication There Is
• Managers, where are you? Would you write for us?
• Have a Better Conversation, and “Something more can result”
• February Conversations: 5 Day One Possibilities

January 2008

• Can We Sit and Talk? 3 Great Reasons for Starters
• Oh Alice, I feel for you!
• Talk Story about Stopping: 5 Reasons to Kill Auto-Pilot
• What happened to On the Job Training?
• 10 Ways to Run a WOW! Campaign at Work
• Start a WOW! Project at Work
• Starter Moves with Social Media: Conversation is a Must
• Yeah, But I don't have my own business
• The 6 Saving Graces of New Year's Resolutions
• Newly thinking about~ Guilt and Obligation
• Talk Story about your Values with Pictures
• Coach every new manager: The camera loves you baby.
• Tell me your One & Only: 1 Request = 9 Benefits

December 2007

• There's a Better Lesson to Learn about Shopdropping
• Reality Check: Is your track record actually bad enough to create a new business?
• Ma‘alahi = December Bliss!
• Stress-busting for December: Project Sweet Closure
• Hey Boss, Why are you Blogging?
• Overdo Talking Story? Might be possible.
• Sweeten your messages
• Why “management” has a bad rep
• December off and running!
• Ho Ho Ho'ohana Holidays

November 2007

• Talk Story: Brand versus Reputation ”“ 4 Questions to start with
• For the BEST 15 minutes in the workday, Huddle.
• Thanksgiving Blessings and Aloha
• Leaps in Thankfulness, and Gifts From the Heart
• Trigger Those Conversations Waiting to Happen
• What’s your signature story?

July 2007

• Mea Ho‘okipa Live Their Aloha Every Day
• Hospitality: It feels like home
• No Requests Required
• Hospitality is more than façades
• What are your interview questions for the Mea Ho‘okipa?
• The Business End of Southern Hospitality
• How to Capture an Expert’s Value: 12 Tips
• A charge for the Ho‘okipa Brigade: Social Graces
• Make Sunday your Day to Comment
• Writer, reader, place: writing with ho'okipa
• Send that Blackberry to Solitary Confinement
• Dissecting Hospitality
• Our Gatherings Nudge Us Toward Collaboration
• Hospitality and the Comforts of Home, with Company
• Writing Elsewhere; Sunday Review 10
• Ho‘okipa : A Mother's Love
• Hospitality: The Key to Peace on Earth
• Books on Hospitality
• Snapshots of our Culture
• Hospitality: Our Gatherings Seek to Meet a Need
• Holiday Writing Indulgence
• Build Energy then Go Where the Energy Is
• Ho‘okipa Via The United States Postal Service
• Favorite comic? So hard to choose!
• Ho'okipa grabs a Running Start!
• Our MWA value for July 2007 is Ho‘okipa
• We are Talking Story about ” Ho'okipa, Hospitality

June 2007

• The Best of 2007 on Talking Story
• How to deal with a Bad Boss
• 7 Wonders of Learning - Help make it happen!
• Why is this here? KISS it and Leap it.
• Rapid Fire Learning | June 2007
• Playing Elsewhere with Family
• Mantras and ScreenSaver Magic
• Sunday Blog Paper —Father’s Day Edition
• Big Brother Blog, Little Sister Coach
• Self-service is No-service
• On Ho‘ohiki: Keeping your promises
• Believe in your Biology!
• I think I'll send this to my son...
• “Something that will benefit” —Productivity501
• Kamehameha; Law, Legend and Leadership
• Writing Elsewhere; Sunday Review 9 and Learning Links
• Arghh! Too many widgets, cookies, blog blingees and community toys
• Not-so-Secret Weapon of the Self-Employed
• New to management: 2 Learning Hit Lists
• Values and monthly Habit-magic
• Management as a “second career.” Empathy needed please.
• You can see the joy in talking story even when you can't hear the words being said
• More than one way to get Break Thru

May 2007

• 5 Things Employees Need to Learn—From You
• Has May’s Ho‘ohana been good for you?
• Observations on Audio Pilot
• Book an Author and Make Their Day
• Rapid Fire Learning | May 2007
• “I feel strong when I talk to you.”
• Thursdays at home, on Talking Story
• Color me Fickle
• Emotional Intelligence; another version
• Five Steps Where Determination Equals Finishing
• My Five Self-Imposed Blogging Rules
• Ho‘omau, Kaona, and Confidence
• Our Ho‘ohana for May; Ho‘omau and Be Strong

April 2007

• How the Boss does the Training
• Telemarketing is Broken
• Rapid Fire Learning | April 2007
• The word is WORK
• To Do, and To Stop, with ‘Imi ola
• Paper: Peeves and Pleasures
• Twelve Rules for Self-Leadership
• Voices of Aloha, Voices of Strength
• From Corporate Life to Self-Employment
• Me a Hero? Cool!
• Doing, Being ” We want both!
• Twelve Rules for Self-Management
• Two to Read: Social Media and Online Community
• Think Strong, Be Strong
• Live Large with ‘Imi ola
• Newly thinking about~ Motivation
• Ho‘ohana Community Newsbits
• Ho‘ohana: Our Value for April is ‘Imi ola
• Fun and Foolery Sunday

March 2007

• A Love Affair with Books and our Added Value
• How we Choose to use our Voice
• Rapid Fire Learning | March 2007
• Add Value to People
• Remarkable Leadership, Trust, and Aloha
• The Ho‘ohana Community and the Starfish
• The wonder of human artistry
• Is there an Identity Crisis where you work?
• 420 Quarters
• I’d like you to meet Dean Boyer
• Writing Elsewhere: Review 8 and The Daily Five Minutes
• Vital Friends, The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without
• Hindu Ho‘ohana
• Vital Friends & Family
• Sunday Reading with A Love Affair with Books 2007
• Waiting Tables and Work Ethic
• Ho‘ohana: Love Your Work

February 2007

• Comment and Connect.
• Writing Elsewhere: Sunday Review 7
• Not the Tomatoes!
• Rapid Fire Learning | February 2007
• Huki! Start Paddling
• Service is Monologue; Hospitality, Dialogue
• Sunday Review 6: Trade in “Having to” for “Wanting to”
• Aloha and Love, 3by3
• Abe’s Aloha Quotes
• Another 5er; Game on! Beautiful Blogging.
• Lead by Being Human
• You’ve got it, so flaunt it
• Sunday Review 5: It’s time for Aloha!
• Aloha; a Celebration of Who We Are

January 2007

• Logged your 5?
• First Day Capture, 2007
• That Simple, and That Hard
• Sunday Review 4: Teaching, Learning, and Sense of Place
• Web Awareness 101 for the Business Owner
• Writers Up To The Plate
• Hawaiian Friends
• Change it up!
• Shelf Life and Attention Span on the Web
• Sunday Review 3: Ka lā hiki ola 2007!
• Orange Paint
• Six Ways We End Censorship
• Sounds simple enough...
• Room for Continuity
• On your mark. Get set, Go! ” Ho‘ohana!

December 2006

• Ho‘omaha 2006
• Hō‘ike‘ike 2006
• 2006 Talking Story Countdown!
• An Author’s Perfect Gift
• Victim to the Gift Scramble ”“ again!
• They are “Visitor Demons,” NOT “Inner Demons”
• Great Attitude Part Two: Own it.
• Always did like the number 5!
• When Children Sleep, Angels Whisper
• The Way Business Planning Should Be
• Sunday Reading: This Week’s Review
• Just for fun
• Nānā i ke kumu is all about YOU
• Our December Ho‘ohana; Nānā i ke kumu, Look to your Source

November 2006

• Our Talking Story Ho Ho Ho is coming!
• Perpetual Parenting; Hana hou (We need to keep at it)
• Children follow our example
• Receiving “Thank you” with Grace
• LÅ«‘au and Boiled Peanuts
• Holiday Learning Shout-out; Let us hear from you!
• No longer a Sony customer
• Powerful Orchestration
• And a NaNoWriMo to you too!
• Thankful for the Difficult
• Correcting Behavior, Preserving Self Esteem
• You know you've made it when
• Mahalo: To Know, To Become, To Share
• Heroes for our Children
• The Wise Son
• Our November Ho‘ohana; When Parenting Works

October 2006

• Comfy with My-Tech GTD
• GTD and a Story of Sequential Learning
• Joyful Passion and Ho‘ohana
• Nalu it, Planning, and Success
• Pointers: GTD, the New World, Workplaces, and Learning Projects
• After Sunday’s Earthquake
• GTD? Nalu it!
• JJLN and Sense of Place
• Talk to me
• Read with the Intent to Learn; Milk It
• The “Good Fat” in MWA Businesses
• Our Ho‘ohana for October, 2006: Nalu it!
• Introducing JJLN: the Joyful Jubilant Learning Network

September 2006

• Joyful Jubilant Learning 2006: 120 Ways and Counting
• Take II - My Midlife Awakening
• 10 Things I Must Have On My Learning Epitaph
• Have We Entered Learning 3.0?
• How Executives Fail: A book of Recipes
• Books: A Lifelong Learning Key
• On Being A Serendipitious Learner
• Content or Discontent - Which Tent Do You Live In?
• Ten Things I’ve Learned in 2006
• Unplanning Learning: Debunking the Merits of a Traditional Corporate Curriculum
• I Don't Have a Degree....
• Evolutionary Blogging: Stories that make the connections
• Adding SPARK To Your Business
• Shakin' Off Your 'Is That All There Is' Blues
• You never know...
• Nodes of Knowledge
• The Joy of Discovery: Designing a Learning Process for the Human Spirit
• Learning To Live Through Learning
• 10 Ways to Become Fluent in Technology
• Why Learning is a Leader's Most Important Skill
• Live” Learn” Lead!
• Learning from the Outside In: One Woman's Method to Gladness
• Brother George and the Mid-Term
• Disaster and Emergency Planning in the 21st Century
• Maintaining Your Ignorance
• Excerpt from "Meet The Boomer Sisters"
• Exercise your passion for learning
• It's an obsession
• LEARNING: A Place of Knowing and of Practiced Believing

August 2006

• Learning Needs a Cool Factor
• Thriving in a Structured Life
• Line Up for Learning!
• Creating Community Evangelists
• Heifetz and Milburn on Leadership
• Advice for a Management Hopeful
• Adding Synergy to ‘Imi ola
• An ‘Imi ola Form for Business: POP ² Management
• The Price of School Books- One Option
• Focus Like a Laser Beam with me and Lisa Haneberg
• Disciplined Goals versus BHAGs
• Being successful is not good enough; people must Thrive.
• Ask “Why?” Five Times
• ‘Imi ola; Form and Function

July 2006

• An Entrepreneur at Six
• Have you noticed? - Issue 2
• The Generosity of the Huddle
• The Generosity of Delegation
• The Generosity of Mission-Driven Publishing
• The Generosity of Listening
• Living in History: What are you most aware of?
• Goals, Renegotiated Agreements, and Ho‘omau
• Turn off the lights and noise; Get some peace
• Generosity makes for Good News
• The Generosity of Laughter
• A Blogger’s Generosity
• The Trend of Leader Led Learning
• Stamp and Shred!
• The Generosity of Silence
• Is your boss missing in action?
• How to Fish.
• Red White and Blue Virtues
• Our July Ho‘ohana: Lokomaika‘i

June 2006

• Procrastinate— or not!
• Aspire to Aloha instead
• Joy at Work; There’s something in it for all of us
• Play to Teach and Coach: Draw it!
• We can tackle the Big with a lot of Small
• Work wakes up.
• I still like ‘better’
• A Great List Every Child Should Have
• Goals are, and Values are
• Most important? “”the spirit of our people.”
• Yes, or No?
• MWA3P: There’s no escaping better productivity
• Learning 101 in Web 2.0 and Globalization 3.0
• An endorsement worth more than gold
• To Volunteer is to Mālama
• Play can create lasting impressions
• Six Scoops of Aloha For 06-06-06!
• I’m betting on the roses
• Our June Ho‘ohana: Le‘ale‘a - Let’s Play!

May 2006

• Reinventions at Work and in Business: a Ho‘ohana Community Forum
• The Reinvention of Human Resources
• Reinvented Work: So many possibilities.
• Ho‘ohana Community connections in Washington D.C.
• “Jobs today are really seminars.”
• Got a job to fill? Tell it like it is.
• To Nurture, We Love
• Another day at the office
• The 3 New R’s: Restlessness, Revolution, and Reinvention
• The Effect of a Leader, Starbucks style
• Workin’ it
• Playing offense with Project plays

April 2006

• Community, and the Responsibility of Leadership
• Coffee, Ho‘ohana, and Syncopated Rhythm
• To Mālama, Address the Basics
• Are you a fan of The Daily 5 Minutes?
• Mālama for the Customer who Complains
• Synergy for him, for her, for We
• Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i
• Vocabulary and your Language of Intention
• To Show you Care, Show your Respect
• Stories of Caring at Work
• Our April Ho‘ohana: Mālama

March 2006

• Yes, I love those R’s
• First Who, then How, then What
• Manage with aloha, Lead with aloha
• What’s your Vantagepoint?
• Ask, “Why?” Ask it all the time.
• On the KÅ«lia i ka nu‘u warpath: the Compensation Enemy
• On the KÅ«lia i ka nu‘u warpath: The Email Enemy
• Variables of the Monday or Friday Decision
• Monday or Friday? Choose Wisely
• Adding Value to Performance Reviews
• What’s your warpath m.o.?
• From Wordsmithing to Walking the Talk of Great Leadership
• KÅ«lia i ka nu‘u is about BHAGs
• Our March Ho‘ohana: KÅ«lia i ka nu‘u! The Best We Can Be.

February 2006

• Good Change: Signs of a growing community
• Our 2nd Annual Love Affair with Books
• Have you noticed?
• Read short and deep
• Another reason I get so passionate about management
• Tracking the MWAJ coaching program
• Ho‘ohana Community, meet Laurence Haughton
• Follow up! It’s Not What You Say” It’s What You Do
• Another Love Affair— for all of us.
• An Aloha Attitude of Love
• “Catch a Rising Star”—yours
• Aloha and your Thought’s Fingerprints
• Can you help me Articulate Aloha?
• Aloha; the Intent of Great Managers

January 2006

• Ho‘omau: Reveal Strengths and Talents
• “Mahalo nui Felix, ...7 Causes.
• Ho‘omau and your Language of Intention
• Ho‘omau and having faith
• Ho‘omau with Kevin’s Vantagepoints
• January Ho‘ohana: the short and sweet of it
• Ho‘omau: Cause the good to last

December 2005

• Ho‘omaha 2005; holiday hiatus
• Hō‘ike‘ike: Managing and Leading in 2005
• The Relationship Quotient; what’s yours?
• Gingerbread Latte, no whip, full holiday press
• “Mind like water” for Santa?
• Surfer rides again in Hale‘iwa
• Number 500
• Imagine being an audience of one, receiving joy
• Dear Boss, ”I mean Santa,
• Hau‘oli lā hānau Papa
• The Book of Virtues; review of an unread book
• The Wonder of It All
• Web surfing surprise!
• Values, Principles, and now, Virtue
• A Ho‘ohana of Faith and Family

November 2005

• Counting blessings in mahalo: November Recap
• Mahalo and Giving
• What it means to “Look to Your Source”
• HC, why read business blogs?- updated
• It is a day for Thanksgiving
• 360 Degree Review? How about 5 Minutes instead?
• Gratitude IS Right; Right and Value-Packed
• Be Grateful and Be Happy
• Mastery in the Art of Living
• Busy, Busy, Busy!!! Community News.
• Write Your Joy
• Revelationary Retreating
• Roll up those sleeves: Mistakes and trust-building.
• More on Blogging Attentions: the ROA discussion.
• Blogs, and being reasonable with my own attentions
• A Mahalo 3by3: Appreciation, Gratitude, Thankfulness
• Let’s Talk Story about GOOD Mistakes
• Workplace Order Rules Part 2
• TypePad Challenges and your Comments
• Mistakes are Cool
• Yes, I miss Todd and his Business Thoughts too!
• Be Proactive; Values by Choice as Your Habit - updated.
• Beauty shared with Lokomaika‘i, generosity.
• Gadget and Gizmo Liberation: Set yourself free!
• How to write Proactive, Considerate Emails - please!
• Make yours personal and drop a cherry bomb or two
• Mahalo; We give thanks.

October 2005

• Loving my Weekly Review
• Workplace Order Rules
• Dim Sum Darlings
• “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.”
• Hot buttons, sayings, themes and soapboxes: What are yours?
• Choose your values, honor your sense of self
• Seek, search, find?
• When traveler becomes the ticket.
• Easy, Cheap Procrastination Killer
• Lucid moments and humble pie
• Doing the right thing. Bravery at what cost?
• Great news for Managing with Aloha, for Hawaii publishing, and for work
• Course Call: Social Graces in Networking 101
• When does Great Service Happen?
• Best gift of all, bar none.
• Are you someone’s boss? Question for you ”
• October 16 is Bosses Day
• Defining “time management”
• When Competition is a Positive Force
• Mission or Vision? Why choose between them?
• MWA3P; my October Action Cycle
• October Ho‘ohana: Sweet Closure

September 2005

• Lots of Love for Learning; Sept.05 Recap
• Joyful, Jubilant Learning: 64 ways and counting
• Places, Feelings and Learning. Learning Serenity.
• Did you know I was gone?
• Life Long Learning
• Lifelong Learning: Stop The Cliches
• Path of Learning
• The Art of Reinvention
• Refuse to be defined by your daypart
• My Learning Journey
• Astronauts, Toastmasters and lifelong learning
• Learning to like the “B” Word
• Lead Your Learners To Better Thinking
• Learning Trigger Points
• Learning and the richness of life
• Weekend Learning Links on Business Values: Vol. 5
• A more graceful aging, Voice.
• No Room for Mediocrity
• Asking Great Questions; Art or Skill?
• Good for a boost to the ego :)
• Camille’s Story
• My Aha! Moment in Auditory Learning
• Lessons in Leadership
• Learn something new this week?
• Being a Continuous Learner
• Managing with Aloha is now a Lifehack!
• Serendipitous Learning
• Lifelong Learning - Showing up, Reaching Out, and Digging In!
• Are You A Learner?
• Learning Plateaus
• 2 Labor Day Mantras
• Mastery: Permission to be oh so human.
• Start a List: “What I Want to Learn”
• TS Alert! Breaking Biz Idea!
• In a way, we are always working solo
• Attitude of an understanding customer: Priceless
• We learn from people
• September Ho‘ohana; Lifelong Learning

August 2005

• Time to tend your own garden; August Recap
• A First Year in Review: Happy Birthday Talking Story!
• Perspectives on Finding your Calling
• Your entrepreneurial point of view: a gift for growth
• Ka lā hiki ola; The dawning of a new day
• Be right, or do right?
• Climbing the Entrepreneurial Decision Tree
• What does ‘financial literacy’ mean to you?
• Entrepreneurship: Get started. Make the call.
• More from Tom! Scale, Scope, Size and Song?
• Saying “thank you” cannot wait
• Tom Ehrenfeld on MBAs and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Tom Ehrenfeld’s Ho‘ohana and Kaona
• We Talk Story with Tom Ehrenfeld this week!
• Identify the strengths of those you manage
• My cell phone just makes phone calls”
• Hawaii’s business climate; tough stuff
• Can you read value signs?
• Are you meant to be a manager?
• The Rule of Synergy
• Coaching Coaxing
• The Blessing of Rain
• How growing a business grows you
• Gotcha thinking now!
• Why The Startup Garden?
• Black Beauty
• Let’s get on with it! Ho‘olaule‘a prizes :)
• Ash, soot, and the smell of smoke, but it’s home.
• Not where we expected to be
• Tom Ehrenfeld and The Startup Garden
• Our August Ho‘ohana is Ho‘olaule‘a; a Celebration!

July 2005

• July ’05: Talking Story Recap
• Up to Volcano!
• Pack Rat No More
• 5 Questions for your Performance Appraisals
• It really does take only 5 Minutes!
• It’s time to retire your annual Performance Appraisals
• 15,842 steps = 6 miles. Just a bit extra.
• Who’s the real tyrant?
• Is my behavior showing?
• Talking Story in Blogsville
• Looking for Leadership: any Ideas?
• Summer Heroes: George Hincapie
• Teach and get taught, Coach and get coached
• Packing Checklist: include your Workout
• Just how much do useless meetings cost?
• Logistics of the Daily 5 Minutes
• Weekend Learning Links on Business Values: Vol. 4.
• The Amazon.com Hall of Fame
• The Customer is NOT always right
• Make it easier
• My butt is starting to hurt
• Own the time you DO have
• “Aloha! What’s in a name?” Quite a bit.
• You teach me, and you make me smile
• Should you write a Business Blog?
• Our Aloha to London this morning
• Changing your Habits: How badly do you want to?
• Gaga for Goethe
• Walk with me!
• Office perfection; ah! - bliss.
• Talking Story gets a new look!
• Do you know what Hawai‘i means?
• Managing with Aloha: Yes! You can too!
• July Ho‘ohana: Here’s to good health

June 2005

• Day 181 of the year: Say Aloha to June!
• Warmth and caring are words describing ”
• Do it right, or don’t do it at all.
• Art of the Sale Redux
• Arizona Wildfire Watch
• In-N-Out Burger: An example of Focus and Precision
• Investment Banking at the Prescott Starbucks
• May we request Patrick?
• College in the Good ‘New’ Days
• Free press for a terrific hotel
• Say Aloha to Prescott with me
• A day to honor and love our dads
• Kākou in the Ho‘ohana ‘Ohana with ‘ÅŒpala ‘ole
• Information overload? Cut back on your email.
• Draw yourself a picture; Doodle your way to learning.
• Do you want people to trust you?
• How to Prepare yourself for Reading
• Your pay is not necessarily what you’re worth.
• Home sweet home.
• 3by3 on Motivation, Responsibility and Accountability
• The Energy Flow of Kuleana (Responsibility)
• Your Responsibilities: Joy or Clutter?
• MWA3P: Strictly Double-Opt In
• A Riddle for you today: Who am I?
• GTD + 7 Habits + MWA = MWA3P
• Not ready for greatness; still working on the effectiveness part
• Seems I’m having a Covey—GTD weekend
• Hau‘oli lā hānau is happy birthday in Hawaiian
• 'ÅŒpala 'ole and your Personal Productivity
• Good advice from Jay this evening
• Why GTD reminds me of the 7 Habits
• June Ho‘ohana: ‘ōpala ‘ole

May 2005

• Our Talking Story Recap for May
• More May Leis - for different reasons
• 3 Cheers for the Aloha of 800-CEO-READ!
• Writer’s Rewards
• What it takes to be a (__) executive
• Shortcuts in using what you’ve read
• Coaches are those who listen
• Prescott bound!
• Why “Just Do It!” is the huge magazine fold-out ad tacked to the wall above my computer
• Dealing with bullies and conflict the aloha way
• Golden opportunities can look pretty dingy at times
• “Biz chic is back, baby.”
• Let’s be honest.
• My Chautauqua is open!
• Ensuring dignity for staff is not difficult!
• I am getting things done on O‘ahu
• How to spot unhappy employees
• Strengths, Values, and that Pyramid
• Three things for Sunday, Mom first!
• Hey boss, what do you want to know? - Part 2
• Hey boss, what do you want to know? - Part 1
• The Interview with God
• Only today ”05-05-05
• 365 Ways to Manage Better: May 4
• Have you heard of Chautauqua?
• Talking story, Genuine Curiosity and Baseball
• May Day Gifts of Aloha

April 2005

• Aloha to April: Our Recap
• The unwired work day
• Do you believe in fate?
• The Pope’s True Revolution
• The Art of the Sale and Trust.
• What was she trying to say?
• Weekend Learning Links on Business Values: Vol. 3.
• Authenticity: pitfalls versus ultimate advantage
• Work World Myth #8: Managers should know how to do everything.
• 5 Minutes Daily = Work Life Reinvention
• Our Growing Community
• Ho‘omau: The value of perseverance.
• Talking to your manager
• Visit me today on the 800-CEO-Read Blog!
• Ho‘omāka‘ika‘i with your community
• When you are the world to them
• The Art of the Sale 4
• This compliment is yours!
• The Entrepreneurial Mindset: 8 Rules when you are “On-Again”
• What managers must understand
• The Art of the Sale: Sell “simply better”
• Take a walk on 173 Drury Lane.
• The Art of the Sale 1 and 2
• Why Talking Story?
• When the child sets the example for the parent
• True or False for your workplace?
• Aloha given in Art and Heart.
• ‘Apelila Ho‘ohana: Bottom-Line Aloha, the Art of the Sale

March 2005

• This is why the Slacker Manager is Mr. Smart and Cool.
• Seize your opportunity for virtual coaching.
• Another Take on Meetings: The 5-Point Plan.
• An April meme preview.
• An open letter to bloggers: Talking Story links.
• Our Talking Story March Recap (and Marcus Buckingham).
• Reinvention, Tradition, and Circle of Influence.
• The Reinvention of the Business Community
• Wayne Hurlbert on Reinvention
• K.Todd Storch on Relevance
• Christopher Bailey on Reinvention
• Anita Campbell on Reinvention
• Yvonne DiVita on Reinvention
• Lisa Haneberg on Reinvention
• Aloha to the Silent and Faithful.
• Experience required. (Are you sure?)
• Bent Crow Press: A Case Study of Publishing Reinvention.
• St. Patrick and The Menehune.
• The lab is cooking over at Alchemy.
• Wow: scientific proof for my Hawaiian mana’o!
• The instinctive, natural selection of wanting
• So far, I subscribed to 3 new blogs this morning
• The Cooperative Business Model
• Working within your circle of influence.
• Strengths and Values
• Don’t let Reinvention intimidate you.
• Muses, Mentors and Self-Talk
• The 3 R’s in Business: ROI, ROR, and ROA.
• Scott’s Time for Leadership
• Optimism: don’t leave home without it.
• A Coach’s Review of Managing with Aloha
• Better Believe it: Managers Matter.
• The ‘Ohana in Business
• The Entrepreneurial Mindset
• The papaya tree
• Our March Ho‘ohana: Visible Reinvention in Action

February 2005

• The Slacker Manager Reviews Managing with Aloha
• On the BestSeller List: February’s Talking Story.
• Weekend Learning Links on Business Values: Vol. 2.
• Read, register, and release your books with BookCrossing.
• 7 More Ways to get the most from Books.
• Grab some inspiration and tip the scales.
• A-ha! is live!
• Talking Story with the Delightful Yvonne DiVita.
• Meet the Barbara Walters of the blogosphere.
• This day in this life
• Get into a new habit: Working wide awake.
• Managing with Aloha reaches its 3rd Month Milestone today.
• A Dozen Myths about Reading.
• Where is the power in this blogging thing? In public service.
• Management with High Impact.
• 100Bloggers Essay, aka the “Talking Story Baby Book excerpt”
• The Ho‘ohana Online Community Library
• The Wizaard’s love affair with books
• Danny Gregory writes on Bob Dylan.
• Speaking of love and aloha.
• Preparing for Valentine’s Day.
• Weekend Learning Links on Business Values.
• February Friday Feature: Book Questions.
• The 3 Sins of Management
• Other Authors on Reading and Writing Books
• The price of schoolbooks and the cost to reading.
• Teacher’s helper: a story of Aloha
• The Future of Podcasting.
• How about 100 Bloggers or more in your company?
• Play with Google this weekend.
• Fun Feature For February Fridays
• What are your reading habits?
• February Ho‘ohana: A love affair with books.

January 2005

• Ideas, Leadership, and Vision.
• KnowMore Blogging has arrived!
• Eavesdropping on January’s Talking Story
• Amazing how this community thing works.
• The Alchemy of Soulful Work.
• Write Bren Write! We’re Voting!
• ‘Ohana, your business and your community
• In favor of Business Blogs? Click in your support!
• The very best Business Card ideas
• Reader’s new toy
• Community: join in or start up?
• When work doesn’t have to be w-o-r-k
• Fact of Life: people get sick.
• My Mana‘o on Why I Write.
• Work Obsession
• More Stories of Aloha: Rosemary
• On Ho‘okipa: “give me an example.”
• Mahalo for your ChangeThis votes!
• Managing with Aloha is now available on Amazon.com!
• Blogs and online friendships.
• A Company Culture of Ho'okipa
• Bren’s Thoughts on the Eight Beatitudes
• Carnival of the Capitalists.
• Customer Service: How Can it Improve?
• Time to read blogs, anyone?
• On the lighter side for your weekend.
• Community disengagement does matter.
• Work is personal - isn’t it?
• There is a community looking for you.
• Shameless Self Promotion
• How this coach (me) reads a blog.
• This is it, my 100th Talking Story Post!
• MWA comes to Hawaii Public Radio
• Thank you Hawaii!
• January: Day and time for the Ho‘ohana Community.

December 2004

• Holiday Hiatus: our Ho‘omaha.
• Shifting organizational culture.
• The water’s fine: Take 5 and jump in!
• The Daily Five Minutes
• Organizational Change and the Daily Five Minutes
• Coaching with Storytelling.
• The Alaka‘i Nalu
• Banish auto pilot, sacred cows, and stupid rules
• More on this month’s Ho‘ohana: Your Job is Change
• Papa's Shopping Angel Story.
• Talking Story in person soon!
• Websites, Weblogs, and LipSticking: a Story of Aloha given.
• Our Ho‘ohana for December: Change

November 2004

• Aloha: you get what you first decide to give.
• Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
• ‘Tis the season for the value of Mahalo.
• Employees or Business Partners?
• Covering business proves challenging, rewarding.
• The Ka Makani winds blow strong and sure.
• Mahalo to my 'Ohana
• Countdown! It is time for Managing with Aloha.
• Much ado about Entrepreneurship
• Sunday Reading: Quotes that point to Courage.
• It’s official: Take this job and shove it!
• Case sees Hawai‘i as business model
• 3 great questions you can use to Delegate Better.
• Managers urged to put aloha to work.
• Courage versus Fear.
• Let’s define “values”
• Fertile ground for Entrepreneurship.
• On this side, Operations. On this side, Marketing.
• Now what? Are we ready for our new leaders?
• Will your kids be able to deal with their money?
• What does Schmoozing, a “bozo explosion” and Chocolate have in common?
• Hanau. Giving birth to ideas.
• It's about Courage: Let's Talk Story with bravery, resolution, conviction, and emotional strength.
• It’s November 1. Let’s Ho‘ohana with Courage

October 2004

• The Ka Makani make history.
• More on Making Meaning
• “How did Ho‘ohana get to be your mantra?”
• Campaign strategy: tell the truth.
• Check out Art of the Start
• Many boomers turn self-employed.
• What's the role of Human Resources?
• Among young people, our hope, our challenge.
• Today begins the 75th Annual Business Women's Week.
• Another take on Management versus Leadership.
• My first interview on my book, Managing with Aloha
• Remember We Sell For You?
• As a manager, which metrics are your everyday reality?
• What do you know for sure?
• “Human beings desperately need a sense of community”
• This world-wide web is still about people, and the way we reach out for each other.
• Achievement and Excellence (KÅ«lia i ka nu‘u).
• We’re Talking Story in New York today
• Hawai'i's workers struggle with low pay, low-level jobs
• A Myth on Work Identity to Shatter
• Coming up: a Mahalo Day:)
• Aloha mai kākou, it’s October 1. Let’s Ho‘ohana

September 2004

• Another score for great coaching.
• Scott Hodge on Leadership.
• Talking Story under blog re-construction, please bear with us!
• Flour and Flair. and Aloha.
• Wahine on fire: Part 2 of Coach Shoji's 1000th Match.
• Congratulations to Dave Shoji. Coaches everywhere celebrate with you.
• Big Bucks vs Balance
• Here's another great post for Customer Relationships
• Don’t let spam obsession and permission paranoia kill your good intentions
• Stories of Aloha
• More on your Relationship ROI
• The push and pull of land development continues.
• Disappointing election turnout for us.
• Let's post those Hawaii opportunities!
• The Experience Economist
• It's Primary Election Day
• Shouldn't the title be Mission 1, Goal 0?
• Working on Mission
• Why harness knowledge?
• Worthy Weekend Online Reading
• Business cards fall under the category of:
• The 8th Habit
• A Haleakala Photo Album
• A Labor Day acronym for you:
• Maui Writers Conference, Day 2
• Maui Writers Conference, Day 1
• September Ho'ohana is online!
• Yes, it's September 1st

August 2004

• Watch for the Energizer Bunny!
• Makahiki
• Customer Service is lost somewhere, please help me find it
• Why Zach wears number 4
• We Sell Things For You
• Red Flag Rising
• Mahalo plenty Heath
• Summer Heroes