Tag Archives: START

Name Changing

When the eyes are new, everything is renewed, refreshed, and recharged.

Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”

What have you been calling yourself?

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Holacracy

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is one of the guys that I’m always taking notes from. Back in March, I read an article in Fast Company about his decision to move the company to adopt Holacracy. Holacracy is “…a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss.

Today, the book came in.

If you or anyone you know has implemented Holacracy, I would love to hear about the experience and learn whatever you can teach me.

I started reading it tonight and as the book reads – ‘change can be elegant’.

Sounds fun.

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Action and Reality

Parker J. Palmer once wrote, “Right action can be only an immersion of ourselves in reality, an immersion that involves us in relationship, that takes us to our place in the organic nature of things.”

This organic nature of things is the secret to success. We are to be the farmers sowing with the seeds of creativity and service into the dirt of our lives. All the while anticipating the rains to come and sun pull the proverbial blooms from the Earth.

Remove any of the above – the farmer, the dirt, the seeds, the rain, the sun – and reality becomes very different.

Lucky farmer is an oxymoron.

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If you’re convicted…

…expect turbulence.

…anticipate resistance.

Conviction will always have a litmus test that requires some form of persistence, perseverance, hope, faith, and endurance.

The pursuit of success in any path will always come full circle to one question…”Are you really in love?”

One ‘I don’t’ can crush a million ‘I do’s’.

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