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CEOs of Hawaii’s small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operate in an increasingly complex business environment. Their direct competitors often include large mainland enterprises and disruptive online powerhouses. This requires SMBs to be fairly sophisticated, innovative and nimble in their business operations. The cost of not evolving their business at the “speed of market” can be drastic. Continue Reading →
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The gigantic problems that spangle across our TVs, magazines, and blogs every day create a sense of fatalism. Every day we are pulled in to the world of negative megatrends. Population growth rates are escalating. Non-renewable resources are disappearing. Climate changes are devastating coastlines and making weather more and more unpredictable.
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These days are full of turmoil and fast-moving social and political issues that quickly escalate into “identity disputes.” In the words of my good friend and colleague Doug Thompson of the Consensus Building Institute: “We are all stressed up with nowhere to go.”
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Public policy conflicts abound. We often get involved in fights over public policy, whether they relate to forests, energy policies, trade and taxes, agricultural laws, wild animals, land zoning, ocean cleanliness, and more. As humans, this is what we do. At GUILD Consulting, we help people create constructive feedback and conversations that eliminate conflict and promote problem solving.
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In the daily local, national, and international news, opportunities to improve our body politic are everywhere. Some are small moments that pop up like mushrooms after a hard rain. Others have hazier possibilities in which we see the contours of a possible constructive collaboration down the road, but that “something” is indistinct and will require attention, planning, and foresight.
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Groups grappling with important issues often have the “sensing” challenge of taking their own pulse. More often than not, the issue is thrashed out through discussion, followed by someone “calling the question” and putting the matter to a vote.
