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July 2016

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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

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