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"The measure of leadership is measured by the people who measure their leadership by you." -Dan Prosser
Our Vision
We are committed to the possibility of a world where people love what they do at work - and achieve what they want in every aspect of their lives.
Our Mission
Our job is to help committed people who are building something of value together to become deeply aware, profoundly connected, and authentically accountable to each other; to enrich the process of building an unstoppable team; and to make a meaningful contribution to each other and to the world. We are committed to helping every company become a BEST Place to Work company.
.What We Believe
Our mission is based on three core beliefs:
- When leaders become aware of the context, or hidden conversations in their lives and in the workplace that undermine and sabotage their vision—they attain, often for the first time, the unprecedented power and freedom to invent and create anything.
- When people become connected to each other and to a much greater future for themselves, they gain the fundamental tools for success.
- When people learn to be authentically accountable to each other, anything previously thought impossible disappears.
When people are aware, connected, and accountable, they expand themselves in such a way that they can accomplish anything they are willing to take a stand for in their lives.
The Best Places To Work Manifesto for Responsible Leadership.
Written starting in 2001, the Responsibile Leadership Manifesto is our perspective, our belief, our methodology, and our inspiration; collectively, they are the distinctions of our work.
Written starting in 2001, the Responsibile Leadership Manifesto is our perspective, our belief, our methodology, and our inspiration; collectively, they are the distinctions of our work.
- Your Past Owns Your Future. Humans look at their past performance as if that will provide the insight necessary for planning greater performance in the future. If you are driving down the road looking through the rear view mirror, you can only see the bumps you already hit and by then it’s too late and of little use. Face it. Most people let the past essentially own their future.
- Try Something Different. Employees are becoming employer deaf. Grandiose pronouncements by managers today intended to create a new call to arms is falling on deaf ears. They’ve heard it before and it’s still the same old tune.
- Take a Powerful Stand. Business is an invention of people’s speaking. In that way powerful businesses are declared into existence, not started.
- Business is a Conversation. Businesses are a function of the effectiveness of the conversation human beings engage in.
- Uncover Your Background Conversations. It’s more important than ever for an organization to look at the conversations that make up the business and that drive business performance in the background.
- Reinvent Your Conversations. Organizations must reinvent the conversations in their business to create a new future then get on track or go out of existence.
- Invent Conversations that Make a Difference. Business can always transform itself by altering the conversations or making up new ones. But first you must be able to see the conversations that are having it be the way it is currently. Otherwise the invented conversations will have little power and will be relegated to the Recycle Bin.
- Only Quality Conversations Count. Performance is a function of the quantity and the quality of conversations people enter into with, and between, themselves, and with their marketplace.
- Declare Your Outcomes First. Human Beings in business often operate without regard for the immense impact invisible conversations have on the outcomes they declare they are committed to.
- Suspend the Past. Human Beings desire a world that consists of unlimited possibility. Yet, adopting the new paradigms and conversations necessary for inventing such a world requires one to be able to suspend the past and imagine a future the past tells you, you can’t achieve.
- Honor Context. Human beings relate to each other in business within the context of a network of conversations. Business is a conversation.
- Revere Voice. Because the workplace is comprised of real conversations which real people engage in, business has a real voice. Who’s listening?
- Alignment is Everything. Only when difference-making conversations are well communicated, clearly understood, and aligned with the purpose of the organization, is higher performance possible.
- Stop Keeping Secrets. Where there are secrets or anything un-discussable at any level of the organization you will find a dysfunctional organization.
- Stop Pretending Immediately. When employers pretend to be open, or pretend to care, it undermines their employee relationships. It’s harder than ever to recover from pretending something that isn’t. Employees know.
- Stop Confusing Employees. Executives and leaders of businesses are not equipped for the rapidly changing demands of the marketplace. Employees are confused by this.
- Be Authentic. Human beings are smarter today and can tell when organizations and other humans are inauthentic in their way of being. They will give you one chance to get it right. There are too many options available to mess around with people who aren’t serious about ‘business with integrity’.
- Get Real. Most organizations have mastered the appearance of moving forward while they watch the horizon of opportunity get smaller instead of bigger.
- Move for Understanding. Ninety-five percent of all employees and management have no clue what the mission statement of their company is. The other 5 percent have difficulty getting the others to understand its relevance and to implement it.
- Who You Are Being Makes the Difference. Who people are being in relationship with one another has more inherent value to humans today than what they do or how well they do it. Save it. What you do, or what you say, (in and of itself) is insufficient to make any difference in the world. It’s who you are being that makes anything possible for one’s self or for another.
- Be. Do. Have. The fundamental aspect that makes this world possible as we experience it is human beings, not human doings.
- Who’s Your Audience? Most business plans are written for an audience of people who don’t have to implement it. It’s no surprise that employees don’t understand how to put it into action. They likely haven’t read it.
- The Speed of Change is Changing. The internet has allowed people to engage in more powerful conversations at a faster rate, and in greater volume than ever before. The speed of business has increased exponentially over time.
- Create Communities. Business is a community; a marketplace of human beings with a common rightful or proper concern or interest.
- Any Company Can Be a Great Company. Every organization has within it the genetic makeup to become a great company.
Are you curious how the principles of the Manifesto can profoundly impact your organization’s performance?
Do you have insight that would be valuable for others or do you have a question you want answered about your company’s performance?
The Manifesto is an open, living document. Email your questions, comments or contributions to: email or call 713-974-0464.
