All You Need is Love..

Dan Bobinski over at www.Management-issues.com just wrote an article entitled, How to kill morale and start an exodus. It is a classic story of what happens when managers forget that love is the most important generator of performance; when data drives action and disconnection to what has heart and meaning prevents clear vision. There are a lot of managers in that boat right now. Managers who  truly believe that it is all about control and all about the numbers.

We focus on the manager but what about the culture that values the numbers over performance. Where numbers do not accurately reflect the real dynamic and way that work gets done. Too often assumptions are made where curiousity would be a stronger ally in seeing the underlying forces.

Tim Sanders, with Yahoo has made the point that it is love, not greed that is the Killer App. Tim learned that the three elemental particles of Love are: knowledge, networks and compassion. That was in 2002. The words are even more true now.

Yet old habits die hard. It is easy to blame the people. The real culprit lies in the embedded habits of the organization which rewards data over intuition insight and wisdom.

Time for a rebirth don't you think?

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[henotic]

HAWAII – THE ALOHA STATE
Intuition made Aloha the basis for the culture of Hawaii; and then for the society. Aloha is intuitive tough love.
This Spirit of Aloha created by and for the culture has an unique effect in Hawaii. The word Aloha in the Hawaiian language includes meanings of: affection, love, compassion, respect, honor, all good wishes, hello, and goodbye.

Aloha is used in Hawai'i as a greeting and as a benediction (variations occur based on circumstances). Aloha is an (unspoken) acknowledgment that: "We (all) share the breath of life."

Aloha abhors violence of any kind if coupled with disrespect.
Aloha does not forbid violence, or encourage it. There is a simple recognition that many things happen in life - even while consciously sharing the breath of life.

[Dawna Jones]

Thank you for that. There are traditions around the world whose wisdom has never been so important to our capacity to see the whole with greater depth. It is time.