Week #9: Prosperity Challenge and Leadership Failures

Some of the insights from your seeking to achieve balance can carry over into the next challenge: the Prosperity Challenge. As we will discuss in class, true prosperity is defined as "a thriving, flourishing condition of knowing oneself; being at peace with it; and sharing confidently your essence with the world." Comments and ideas promtpted by the reading of CIB are welcomed.

By covering briefly the Nissan and Home Depot situations, we will segueway into failures of leadership. Not everyone is a good or effective leader-- we can learn from the errors as well as the successes.

Please share any ideas triggered by the three cases: Nissan, Home Depot and Mt Everest.

Have fun,
Hal

Live-With: Recognize Your Decision Now

Please share your experiences with this Live-With. How are you using this to help both your understanding of the balance challenge and your actions to create a "balancing" of your life?

This is also the place to post any experiences of using ANY Live-With during the holiday week to your "advantage"-- peace of mind; more productive relationships, etc.

Cheers,
Hal

See With Your Heart Addendum

After our class last night, I realized that we didn't address another aspect of this very important live-with: See YOURSELF with your Heart! In reading your posts, I can see how wonderfully you have applied this live-with to others. At the same time, it is a heart-opening experience to See Yourself with your Heart.

Please share any experiences you had, or have, with this aspect of week 7's live-with. What happens when you see yourself with your heart? What opens up? What might shift? How does seeing yourself with your Heart change your experience of seeing others with your Heart?

I know you have a new live with as well that we gave you last night. I have a sense that seeing yourself with your Heart won't get in the way of discovering the answer that is already inside you...in fact, it might help.

Julie

Live-With: See with your Heart

As I hope I made clear in class, this is a biggie. We all can work on this for the rest of our lives. Not only does it tie together the other 4 tools; but you must employ those tools effectively to accomplish the optimal and effective level of compassion.

Please do share your experiences-- positive or not. Pay particular attention to "reciprosity": how are others relating back to you when you begin to see with your heart?

Week #8: Balance, Leading Change and...

The challenge you will read about is finding balance in your life. It is a logical extension from what we have been covering.

Leading change covers two VERY different companies and situations: Nissan and Home Depot. Compare these companies to Whole Foods and IDEO...

While there is no assigned reading, we have added the topic of gender differences in leadership. Hal has found the book, "Leadership and the Sexes" quite interesting, particularly as it begins from findings about brain differences between men and women and then goes on to articulate a strong case for "authentic, gender-balanced leadership."

Here is the link to an excerpt from Chapter #1:
http://800ceoread.com/excerpts/archives/008408.html

Feel free to post in advance of class, or after.

Hal

Just Do It! and Fear/Stress experiences

Okay, here's where to post your experiences with the Live-With. Share your efforts to clarify and clear out your "stressors"
Thanks,
Julie and Hal

Week #7-- Relationship Challenge and Whole Foods case

Firstly, if you have not looked at last week's comments, it would be a good idea. Some really nice thoughts have been posted.

There is nothing more "pervasive" than relationships... Please share your thoughts after you read Michael Ray's chapter (in the reader, not the CIB book).

While Whole Foods has come upon tough times since the case was written, it still contains interesting ideas for us to consider. Strong culture, unique organization and special leadership.

Dig in and enjoy it.

Hal