Execukos is also about sharing that wisdom with others.
It's a blog that is also written simply and on a personal scale. Beth combines complex ideas and concepts into language comprehensible to all of her readers. I consider that a certain sign of her high level of wisdom as a writer and teacher.
Ideas well expressed are more powerful, and much more likely to be adopted, and shared with others.
It's a blog about teaching business leaders, organizations, and entire communities the value of incorporating wisdom into the leadership and management styles.
To Beth Robinson, author of Execukos, wisdom is defined this way:
Wisdom lives in the domain of relationships, in a mental capacity to see and understand the world through relational thinking rather than analysis.
New resident of Hawaii, Beth Robinson cares deeply about wisdom. Her mission in life is to share that wisdom with leaders everywhere.
Beth says:
Wisdom is so crucial that we cannot leave its development to chance. It is a myth that wisdom only arrives with age and experience and a certain amount of luck. It can and should be sought and nurtured, in all our institutions. I'm fascinated with both "wisdom traditions" and with secular practices that develop wisdom--and this weblog is one place I explore the applications of these ideas and practices.
Her blog shows that goal is being achieved.
Very well.
As I read through Beth's well written and thoughtful posts, I was struck by her depth of learning and her desire to share her journey with others. She sees and understands all things as an intertwined whole.
There are no singularities and nothing can happen in isolation. Everything and everyone are part of a whole. Everything we do affects everything and everyone else.
Beth finds the decline in wisdom a concern.
Wisdom is being replaced by smartness. Short term and one dimensional goals are replacing longer term thinking. Success in narrow quarterly profit terms is simply not enough for any modern organization. In fact, that lack of contemplation and insight into the whole can lead to disaster.
Being smart doesn't equate to being wise.
Here is where Beth Robinson of Execukos begins her journey with the leaders of the organization.
Finding quick answers is easy.
Choosing wisdom requires a greater, but definitely more rewarding, depth of contemplation. Fortunately, the pursuit of wisdom is of greater value to the person and to the organization.
Spending some time with Beth Robinson's Execukos can help us all become better and stronger leaders.
And of course, send us on the path to greater wisdom.
Thanks to Rosa Say of Talking Story for suggesting that I review Execukos as part of the Talking Stroy May Lei celebration of blogs and bloggers.
As always, the wise Rosa Say showed me the way to the wise Beth Robinson and Execukos.
Simply reading Beth Robinson's blog gem, called Execukos, helped me to think about choosing wisdom as the way of thinking for business management.
I hope wisdom can become a permanent way of life for all of us.
