Category: Organizations
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Revolution: the Business and Brand of Sustainability?
The Seattle Times recently ran a Washington Post article on how Steve Case pushes symbiotic relationship of business principles, green ideas. This was particularly interersting to me, given that a few days earlier, Case‘s new company, Revolution, LLC, had flexed its muscles to grow Flexcar, whose [now] former CEO, Lance Ayrault, had shared some of…
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Social Entrepreneurship at Zino Society
The Zino Society Roundtable meeting had a social entrepreneurial flavor — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say several such flavors — this month. Two of the four companies presenting their plans to the Zino investors (SoilSoup and MadreMonte) had goals of creating greater social and/or environmental welfare, and another (Jookster) was incorporating…
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Bizniking at the BalMar with a Proactive Display
Biznik is "an urban tribe for business, a supportive business network that encourages creativity, radical thinking, and community" … The BalMar brings "cocktails, conversation and comfort" together in "a unique space with exceptional service and adventurous food and drink" … It’s hard to imagine a group or place that could be better aligned with the…
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Howard Schultz on Passion, Perseverance and Partnership
I had a remarkable Starbucks Experience yesterday, which prompted me to go back and review my notes from Howard Schultz’s inspiring book “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time” (co-authored with Dori Jones Yang). It reminded me of my intention to start posting more summaries of…
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Passion, Knowledge and Wine
Phil Condit, former chairman of Boeing, and four groups of entrepreneurs gave presentations emphasizing — and exhibiting — passion and knowledge at an Executive Roundtable meeting of the Zino Society last night at The Rainier Club … then we all tasted some wine. It’s hard to imagine a more winning combination for a successful meeting!…
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Delicious Ambiguity
A scheduling mistake at the hospital today resulted in an extra long wait before seeing the phlebotomist for a CBC test, but there was, as so often happens, a silver lining: Amy and I used the time to stroll through the courtyard and see the Red Doors created by various local artists to support Gilda’s…
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New Warrior Training Adventure: A Powerful Multi-cultural and Multi-dimensional Experience
I’ve just returned from my "rookie" staffing at a New Warrior Training Adventure weekend near Albany, NY: a multi-cultural NWTA co-sponsored by the Upstate NY, New England, and Montreal communities within the Mankind Project (MKP). It was a powerful experience on multiple levels for me, made all the moreso by the opportunity to participate in…
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Planetwork Seattle: Proactive Displays, Interra and the Identity Commons
I attended a Planetwork Seattle meeting on Sunday, and it was a mind- and spirit-boggling experience. Eileen sent me an announcement for the Planetwork Networking forum on Saturday, which invited "anyone who is either working on developing software which could be used for social networking or in other ways to address the world’s problems, OR…
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NWEN Pub Night: Beer, Pizza and Passion
I attended my first Northwest Entrepreneur Network Pub Night at Hales Ales on Thursday. Highlights include the Red Menace Big Amber (a very hoppy ale with an interesting combination of Caramel, Carastan and a handful of Black Malts), the best pizzas I’ve had since moving away from Chicagoland, and a lineup of short, passionate and…
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Love and Logic: Learning and Growing through Mistakes
The night after reading about the art of making mistakes wakefully, I attended the first class of a four-class seminar on Love and Logic, wonderfully facilitated by Cindy Horst. The premise of this approach to parenting a child is to "empower him/her to make his/her own decisions, live with his/her mistakes and grow through the…