#managing better

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Here is a promise, from me to you. As 2015 arrives, I will not nag you about making resolutions.

I will follow-up however, and keep talking about piloting projects.

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We have started the Thanksgiving holiday with feasting and with 'thanks' - let's go into this weekend with the 'giving.'

Our Saturday MWA Archive Aloha:

There was a time when I’d repeatedly insist that if you aren’t doing the Daily 5 Minutes, you aren’t a manager who truly is ‘managing with Aloha,‘ not completely… and I still feel that way. D5M is the conversation in which a manager learns all they need to learn about their own people, just 5 minutes at a time in daily bites — that’s why I included it in my book within the chapter on ‘IKE LOA, the value of learning, and why I now link to a free excerpt to give readers fuller context the first time they read about D5M.

Yet I now know I pushed too hard. ...

Revisiting the Daily 5 Minutes: Lessons Learned

Enjoy your weekend reading, Rosa

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You’ve already seen 7 of them scroll by on your Tumblr dashboard… like this one. On Managing with Aloha today I talk story about what’s motivating my new daily affirmations, and how I plan on changing them up in the months to come.

Complement this with: Banish your Possibility Robbers:

Possibility Robbers don’t belong in your life. Get rid of them.

In the eyes of your Boss, or any coach or mentor who’s frustrated with you, Possibility Robbers are the villains who have robbed you of having a good attitude. They can muck up your other relationships too.

See them for who they are, so you can banish them once and for all, saying goodbye to them forevermore.

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A Managing with Aloha archive review:

Managers can weigh themselves down with a self-inflicted, ill-conceived and unreasonable burden: We think we should have all the answers, when reality is, that we’re tasked with finding them, not with having them. Our basic job, is to use our findings in the best possible way.