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USUALLY I PROFILE FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES but I was so fascinated by this story that I just had to share.
I was introduced to Lucy Wallace by Stephanie Heacox, who I talked about last week. Lucy heads up Alchemy of Movement, where she delivers extremely energetic dance classes in Boulder.
But Lucy discovered an opportunity to bring dance into women’s prisons. At first she thought this might just be an occasional class, but over the last year it’s become amazing.
THIS WEEK I DISCOVERED an exciting new program offered by Benedictine University near Chicago: their Doctoral Program in Values Driven Leadership for Senior Executives.
This is an amazing development.
This is a mature, well-thought-through program for those who are truly serious about leading businesses with deeper values – the same values I talk about here on this blog.
STEPHANIE HEACOX is launching a great new business, Senior Homeshares. It’s built on a powerful personal motivation to address pain and reduce anxiety.
You see, a few years ago, her mother was in the usual end-of-life bind about housing. She couldn’t sustain the family home, but didn’t want to move into Assisted Living or one of the other services for people who need support.
The financial burden was part of it, of course, but also the difficulty of making decisions to become dependent on others.
MOST PEOPLE I’M TALKING WITH are positive about the outlook for 2016.
Personally, my 2015 was transformative, and I’m incredibly excited about the new projects I’m working on right now. I’ll be talking about that here on the blog real soon.
It’s a bit surprising, actually, the optimism that I’m seeing. Read the rest of this entry »
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, there’s nothing special about the beginning of a new year.
Yet it’s amazing how much importance we place on this event. Especially when you realize that there’s different calendars, with all kinds of various starting dates.
But here we are.
The importance of a new year is what we choose to place on it. Read the rest of this entry »
HOLIDAYS like Christmas, Eid ul-Fitr and Passover are important at multiple levels. We enjoy them perhaps as cultural touchstones, but even more important is the core grounding of each event.
These examples happen to be religious, but you can find similar secular examples. In the US we’ve adopted Memorial Day and Labor Day as the unofficial beginning and end of summer. And like everything in this country, it seems they’ve also been overtaken as consumer events.
But the core behind these remembrances is quite deep, based on the loss of lives in military battle, and the conflict between management and labor in the Industrial Revolution.
I wish you and your family a wonderful time, and prosperity in 2016!
RICARDO SEMLER created a company named SEMCO back in 1980, and has continued his amazing work since then.
Check out the video below, where you’ll hear about what SEMCO did to redesign its company with an absolute minimum of rules and obstacles.
No stable job roles.
No defined work hours, days, locations.
Freely open information sharing.
It’s stunning, because it breaks every convention we have about what a business is supposed to look like. Read the rest of this entry »
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I talked about how generosity brings loyalty. Well, it’s time to take this to the next level!
Employees who are loyal stick around. OK, that’s pretty basic; it’s kind of the definition of “loyal.”
Why do they hang with you through good times and bad? Because they figure they’re doing something valuable, and they enjoy it.
MASSAGE THERAPY is an interesting field. Despite having been around for many decades (and in the East, centuries), it’s still breaking into peoples’ awareness.
Yet it’s such a powerful addition to creating a healthy life.
I’ve been talking with Becky Garcia, who heads up Garden of Healing Massage Therapy here in Windsor. And I’ve had a chance to peek behind the scenes of the creation of her heart-centered service.
The Values-Based Business 