Comments on: Managing with Aloha http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/ improving personal and professional communications Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: david douglas http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2312 david douglas Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:10:39 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2312 hehehe. for sure hehehe.
for sure

]]> By: Pete http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2308 Pete Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:14:20 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2308 Move to Hawaii? Sounds good to me! Move to Hawaii? Sounds good to me!

]]> By: david douglas http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2307 david douglas Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:26:20 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2307 yah okay i see... i guess im just curious how she defines how these values are hawaiian... and whether they are ideals that the hawaiians themselves aspire to, or whethere they actually practice them, or whether or not they're just tradition. yeah im being a little critical! sorry! haha. cause if all these values are cornertstones to hawaiian culture, then why dont we all move to hawaii yah okay i see…
i guess im just curious how she defines how these values are hawaiian… and whether they are ideals that the hawaiians themselves aspire to, or whethere they actually practice them, or whether or not they’re just tradition.
yeah im being a little critical! sorry! haha.
cause if all these values are cornertstones to hawaiian culture, then why dont we all move to hawaii

]]> By: Pete http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2306 Pete Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:11:28 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2306 I think they're what many of us aspire to but I know cultures that don't have values like unconditional love (= <i>aloha</i>) which are not there at all. I also find that the concept of personal responsibility has faded in our own Western society. I think that's what I like most of all about Rosa's teaching: she's bringing these values and concepts into mainstream business and showing us that they're not only philosophically sound and noble, they positively affect the success of the business. I think they’re what many of us aspire to but I know cultures that don’t have values like unconditional love (= aloha) which are not there at all. I also find that the concept of personal responsibility has faded in our own Western society.

I think that’s what I like most of all about Rosa’s teaching: she’s bringing these values and concepts into mainstream business and showing us that they’re not only philosophically sound and noble, they positively affect the success of the business.

]]> By: david douglas http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2305 david douglas Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:58:25 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2305 ahh yeh cool... im just curious, surely some of these hawaiian values are mostly universal? ahh yeh cool… im just curious, surely some of these hawaiian values are mostly universal?

]]> By: Pete http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2303 Pete Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:52:05 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2303 Ok, short example of how transferable the concepts are: Rosa talks about the Hawaiian value of taking personal responsibility (<i>Kuleana</i>). She relates a time when her managers were all wrestling with the question "How do you motivate people?"... "There were 2 main themes to the discussion: one was the proposition that you cannot expect your employees to be as mission-driven as their leader if they haven't bought into the mission and goals of the department in the first place...self-motivation comes largely from desire. The second theme revolved around a shared view that motivation essentially comes from within, and if you are knocking yourself out trying to motivate somone, you're wasting your time." Rosa then tells the story of <i>how</i> they brought their employees to a place of finding their own "want-to" within the business and taking responsiblity for themselves... Ok, short example of how transferable the concepts are:

Rosa talks about the Hawaiian value of taking personal responsibility (Kuleana). She relates a time when her managers were all wrestling with the question “How do you motivate people?”…

“There were 2 main themes to the discussion: one was the proposition that you cannot expect your employees to be as mission-driven as their leader if they haven’t bought into the mission and goals of the department in the first place…self-motivation comes largely from desire. The second theme revolved around a shared view that motivation essentially comes from within, and if you are knocking yourself out trying to motivate somone, you’re wasting your time.”

Rosa then tells the story of how they brought their employees to a place of finding their own “want-to” within the business and taking responsiblity for themselves…

]]> By: david douglas http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2285 david douglas Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:07:16 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2285 crazy muffins. give us an example of a transfer? crazy muffins. give us an example of a transfer?

]]> By: Pete http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2207 Pete Tue, 29 May 2007 07:05:24 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2207 You're more than welcome, Rosa. Grace and peace to you! You’re more than welcome, Rosa. Grace and peace to you!

]]> By: Rosa Say http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2206 Rosa Say Tue, 29 May 2007 06:39:30 +0000 http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2007/05/29/managing-with-aloha/#comment-2206 Mahalo nui Pete, thank you! Mahalo nui Pete, thank you!

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