Business is an opportunity for positive relationship. There are large businesses that have strong intentionally positive relationships with everyone they touch, Patagonia is my current favorite example.
Business is Relationship
Everyone Needs A Team
One of my businesses, Santa Lucia, provides supports for people with developmental disabilities. It’s really rewarding work and has enhanced my life in many ways. For the past six years I’ve been a member of several people’s teams. In the Santa Lucia world, a team is a group of people who help the individual with disabilities to figure out and reach their goals.
Rule #10
Three months ago I had coffee with Alan Webber. Alan lives up the road from me, is one of the founders of Fast Company magazine, a former Harvard Business Review editor, author of Rules of Thumb, and now a gubernatorial candidate in New Mexico. I was asking Alan for some advice, and as he dished out rather a lot of great advice he asked if I’d read his book, Rules of Thumb. I hadn’t read the book, mostly because the title sounds like a sort of Chicken Soup for the Businessperson’s Soul. This is not a Chicken Soup book.
What is your superpower? 