TIPPING POINTS
Natural disasters, war, food and
water shortages, rank poverty, protesting communities, jittery markets. Volatile events that can quickly escalate into
crisis mode. We are living on the edge
in a fragile (even broken) world of increasing tensions – political, ecological,
religious fundamentalism, social , financial and economic – which all feed off
each other.
We’re surrounded by accidents waiting
to happen – within businesses and in the outside world we operate in. Malcolm Gladwell eloquently showed how positive and negatives
are subject to a process which may well lead to a critical mass which then
suddenly take off, erupt, ‘go viral’. What
he termed ‘tipping points’.
GAPS BETWEEN STATED AND LIVED VALUES
Organisations espouse values, but
often fail to live them. The profit-motive rules. We see fraud, corruption, tax
evasion, excessive executive pay. When things go wrong there is denial,
avoidance, cover-up, deception. Credibility,
confidence, trust, values are eroded. Organisational
life for many becomes dysfunctional.
UKULINGISA CHALLENGE
Ukulungisa is an African
concept, essentially meaning a chance to put things right, restore order,
aspire to higher things.
The time has never been more right
for businesses to become virtues-led. Arguably this is our greatest challenge.
Business needs to move beyond responsible capitalism, beyond the triple- bottom-
line, and set the tone for society at large. Shift from a vicious to a virtuous
cycle.
If values do not become lived
virtues, then what’s the point?
THE VIRTUOSA ORGANISATION
Our eBook sets out a detailed, practical
process for achieving the dazzling, virtuoso performance that is required. There
are stories, illustrations, reflections (looking without and within in with clarity),
practical exercises and checklists. Application leads to a reframed story,
reputation, cultural dynamics, performance.
How to arrive at the right values, and
the right way of implementing and inculcating them – so that they become
habitual virtues, is explained. Leonardo
da Vinci’s life and virtues are used as an illustrative, non-threatening set of
virtues that resonate at the individual and organisational levels.
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