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Building Trust in Business: Best Practices in Trust, Leadership, and Collaboration

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

A study of 211 business leaders across more than a dozen industries were surveyed in Spring 2009 by Interaction Associates. Participants were asked to rate their organizations’ success in achieving a variety of business goals, including customer retention, employee retention, innovation and creativity, and maintaining a competitive market position. Then, participants rated their organizations along [...]

City of the Dawn, Auroville, India – Awareness of Oneness: Seeing the Power of Unity in Action

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

“The New World is not only a possibility ~ it’s happening”
City of the Dawn is a remarkable documentary about a modern, universal city with 2,000 people from 40 nations who have developed innovative and inclusive solutions in every aspect of human social life: caring relationships, participative government, arts and education, architecture and building materials, [...]

Awareness into Action: The Power of Living and Working as One

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Awareness into Action: The Power of Living and Working as One, a conference held on June 27th in Chicago, IL, sponsored by New Momentum for Human Unity, explored the concepts of human unity, collaboration, leadership and the keys to sustainable, positive change.
The goal of the conference was to both inspire and motivate attendees by offering [...]

Trust Works! Facilitator Certification Training and Solutions Integration Training – Trust Works Group

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I attended the TrustWorks! Facilitator Certification and  Solutions Integration Training in San Diego on April 21-24, 2009, sponsored by TrustWorks Group. In the three and a half day certification, I learned the ABCD’s of Trust, a behavioral model that focuses on four core elements – Able, Believable, Connected and Dependable – necessary in building a [...]

A New Day

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama has inspired the American people to leave behind doubt, fear and cynicism, and open ourselves up to faith, hope and optimism. A world of possibilities await us.
Hope Changes Everything (1:01)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVN3Trs5VQ&NR=1
Yes We Can (4:30)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

Walk once more in eternal sunshine

Monday, October 27th, 2008

As Election Day approaches, it is good to reflect on Senator Obama’s profound, presidential closing statement at the recent Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner:
The fact that each October, in the closing weeks of a hard-fought campaign, people of all political persuasions can come to this dinner, and share a meal and honor the work [...]

Bailout Defeat … Lack of trust / Loss of credibility

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Loss of trust is the result of many failures: declines in integrity and ethics, breakdowns in credibility and reputation, and the inability to communicate and lead.
Age of Innocence, The movie download
A 9/30/08 Time.com story on by Michael Scherer, The Bailout Defeat: A Political Credibility Crisis, talks about the “culmination of a historic sense [...]

Ethics survey – good news and bad news

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The 2007 National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), published by the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) last November, based on a nationally representative survey of more than 3,000 employees of U.S. companies, both publicly and privately held and of varying sizes, indicates that ethical misconduct is back at pre-Enron levels.
The survey revealed the following key findings:

High rates [...]

Trust and the Law of Attraction

Monday, August 6th, 2007

The Law of Attraction says that like attracts like and what you focus on expands. Therefore, trust begets more trust.
Leaders who demonstrate positive values like integrity and authenticity, and who are accountable, just as employees are held accountable for their performance, will gain the trust and respect of their employees, achieve greater collaboration, teamwork and [...]

The Boss of it All

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

I saw a thought provoking dark comedy recently, The Boss of it All. This Danish film explores the use and abuse of power in a corporate setting. The owner of an IT company wants to sell and the potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the “Boss” face to face. The only problem is that when [...]

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