Some people would argue that if you need evidence that being more conscious at work is a good thing, you’ll never be persuaded. But there’s also an argument that hard evidence helps - to give confidence and encouragement to those that need it. So here’s a selection of facts and figures that one of the SeeStep team, Lasy Lawless, put together. It covers the value of employee engagement, clear purpose, innovation and good leadership. It shows these are what investors look for, and that they are good for a business…
If you’re here you probably have your own idea of what a Conscious Business is. Our simplified view is that it comes down to: Awareness, Transparency and Communication: Conscious people are aware of themselves, what and how they choose to communicate, and are able to enter constructively into conflict and learn through the process. Growth, Change and Results: A Conscious Business is a safe place where everybody accepts and embraces naturally occurring change. And reaches for shared results – not just individual ones. Distributed Leadership:…
Quora sent me a link to an interesting topic the other day: As first time entrepreneurs, what part of the process are people often completely blind to? There are many good answers, but mine would be: Manage Yourself. What I mean is look after yourself physically, mentally and emotionally. I have seen entrepreneurs and other business people make themselves ill. And clearly if they are physically unfit, developing and growing a business becomes hard if not impossible. I have seen entrepreneurs suffer much mental distress….
Fairly regularly I find myself explaining what a Conscious Business is. I have answered this in terms of strategy before; and also in terms of what CB is not. But this time I thought I’d try to answer a variant of the question: “What does a Conscious Business look like from the inside?” At the core of a Conscious Business are people, of course. In my view, every business is simply a bunch of people, when you boil it down. And in a Conscious Business these people are –…
Today one of my sons told me he had been trying out the text-to-speech option on the Kindle. He thought it funny it couldn’t speak properly – all it does is read the words with no intonation or sense of meaning. This led to a discussion of the difference between a series of words and a sentence. The computer can read each word individually but has no sense of the bigger thing – the sentence. Nor of the next bigger thing, the paragraph. Nor the…