Smart innovative executives have figured out how to take such insights and turn it into a new business model.

Best innovators have a unique ability to connect dots or see what others cannot easily see. They are extremely inquisitive, especially when systems are breaking down.

The banking system (along with many other systems such as education, political, etc.) are all breaking down and the Man is being pushed to the corner.

What can we learn? What can an innovator learn?

One solid example is the Tridos Bank of Netherlands. It has been around for 30 years with over 300,000 global clients. It is amongst five banks in Spain that is growing at an amazing pace to attract consumers that demands ethical investments and transparent and moral banking services.

Tridos and four other such banks in Spain, only invests in the real economy, finances projects related to sectors such as renewable energies and ecological agriculture, and holds social justice to be its own particular Bible.

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1. What is most important to me in my life (or
career, relationships, finances, or community)?

2. What would I love more of in my life?

3. What would I love less of in my life?

4. What is my vision for my life (or career, relationships, finances, etc)?

5. Why am I doing what I do?

6.  Is what I do highly fulfilling and in alignment with my vision for my life (or career, relationship, etc)?

7.  Am I fully using my talents, capabilities and resources to further what is most important to myself and the people I care about?

And, if an organization has a mind, heart, and body, it must have a soul!

For human beings, the “mind-body-heart-soul” connection is the primary differentiation for long term health and longevity. Might this also be true for an organization?

Could this, in fact, be what makes one company different from its largest competitor?

I think so. To me, it seems that the mind is the key to “mindfulness.”

Just as human beings limit most of their progress because they don't like to 'change', organizations also develop such 'mind-lessness'.

This limits our capacity to explore more fully our innate potential within. I liken it to breathing in and breathing out.

Breathing in is what we learn; breathing out is our creative and innovative “output”. This same mind is constantly craving for various sensual short-term, give me the pill, quick pleasures, leading to bondage with the external world (customers, revenue, profits, etc.).

This organizational mind is fickle in nature, just like the human mind, treacherous and hard to control - leading to bad habits.

Bad habits, leads to bad culture. Bad culture, leads to bad character. Bad character leads to organizational demise.

If our journey starts with controlling the individual mind, then the organizational mind will be cultivated organically, from within.

Do you believe that it is important to do whatever small service we may do, if we do it in the right spirit, serving with no thought of self and with sacrifice, we shall be doing something commendable and worthwhile?

If you are like me, an act of service by itself may be a small thing. But when it is done without thinking of yourself and with complete involvement of your heart, it becomes a true act of service - a holy act. 

For many, the idea of service is not fully understood.  In the purest definition, if one has to think about giving or not giving service to others, it is no longer 'pure' service.  If we used this definition and provide Customer Service, what are the new possibilities for an organization? 

In other words, how can Customer Service become Extraordinary Selfless Service ?  And if so, what are the benefits?

An organization can achieve extraordinary results when service is 'pure-service'.  Signs of extraordinary selfless service includes:

• Highly satisfied customer experience
• Quality of product or service would improve.
• Employees are less stressful throughout the day because they are doing good for someone else
• Customers become life time customers and tell others - all the time.
• You can fill out the rest of the list...

When we act without any returns in rendering customer service, and say "This is my duty.  I am born to serve" - are you "working" any longer?  Is it a job any longer?  No.  It is something remarkable.  It becomes an act of Worship.

The alignment between purpose and vision, personal and organizational values, with brand and strategies creates a Living Organization.

A Living Organization constantly evolves to nurture the true needs and desires of the organization and its people by learning and un-learning.

The ability and capability to learn, directly affects individual and organizational performance - therefore strategy execution.

All of your workforce performance solutions should share one characteristic – cultural-evolution and sometime cultural-transformation.

What difference are you creating? To create Living Organizations, you must have endless passion to create and transform your organization into a remarkable, innovative - zooming organization. 

How do you do that?

You must embrace (starting with your own self, then your staff, then your department) new ways of doing your work.  You must redesign your work arena.

How? - You might ask.

Build new 'inner' muscle by developing an 'inner-view'.  This new view uses very creative, personalized, whole-brain approaches to human resource development (notice, not 'HR Management) and enterprise learning.

   The outcome?

        A “Whole Brain Company”…

                      an Engaged Workforce...

                           a Remarkable Culture!   (the only new sustainable strategy...)

In every market, in every country on earth, there are companies that have an edge on their competitors. They develop and maintain cultures that attract star performing employees. They display a level of flexibility unusual for their size. And when they face setbacks, they bounce back fast, turning problems into opportunities, and rallying their troops behind them.

Is your organization on such a journey?  Do you want to learn more about HeartShip?  Then feel free to contact me, my organization would be happy to share some of our lessons learned, the roadmap(process) we have followed to date, and our current initiatives on this journey.

-Jatin

It's a very low point in one's life and unfortunate state of mind for anyone in the world. This is especially true for those who are so full of life - to feel so close to 'death' without being anywhere near the physical trauma whatsoever. You might be thinking that this is an uncommon experience. But quite the contrary. It is not an uncommon phenomena, irrespective of gender or the era one is born in, in our global community. The human spirit and minds are now wearing tiresome "life-clothing" in a self-imposed state of developmental inertia.

Whatever does not evolve and grow, eventually begins to decay and die. It is a fundamental law of human nature, a transgression of which has dangerous repercussions. Any one of the 12 million species on our mother Earth, human beings one of them, does not evolve or use its innate creative energy force every moment of the day, it will feel death-like symptoms - unconsciously.

There must always be something, some purpose, some goal, some yet unattained objective for the human mind to grasp and hold on to, rescuing itself from the vast depth of darkness. It is for this reason that the already 'alive' dare not stop in their quest for continual self-improvement, much less those who are yet to actualize even an ounce of their innate potential.

Those who dream life here and now with zest, and dream of life after death, are never likely to fall into inextricable frames of depression held down by an underperforming mind.

No matter who, everyone wants to achieve and create - something, everyday. When one stops to want to innovate and create, journey towards self-inflected death-region of the inner terrain called depressions and stress begins.

Stop. Don't disengage with the inner warrior in your game of life.

Life is a game - play it. Play it with passion. When one plays the inner game with the external sensory world, life begins to feel alive. The bridge between the inner and the external world is what I am most fascinated with. Like any other bridge, it was built long time ago - when I was born. I have realized that the real game of life is on the travels of this bridge.

My journal and views of the world will mostly be seated on this bridge - as a co-architect, engineer, worker, spectator, but mostley as a fellow journeyman - just like you.

This bridge connects my inner world to the many external pathways, highways and destinations. One of those destinations is my work-life. The Place where we all spend more then 50% of our waking life.

I have chosen to spend much of my life to be alive at this destination we call 'work' as the greatest next challenge in my life's journey. Being alive at work, without hesitation, is the greatest mystery I am driven to conquer.

I will attempt to journal as I attempt to conquer this exhilarating mystery and the master formula to the question - What does a Living Organizations feel like?

Want to be fully alive at work? or help create a remarkable work culture that has never been created?

If so, please join me on this journey as we co-create new possibilities for each other where none existed before!

No dream, no goal.

   No goal, no purpose.

      No purpose, life empty.

          Life empty, death nearby.

-Jatin DeSai, September 17, 2006

                SOURCE

1. The Creator, God, created the creation. After creating the entire creation, he had one last item he had left to create for the universe to be totally engaged. To help Him complete the task, he summoned an angel. Angel came. The Creator told the angel that He, the Lord, had one last job to do in making of the universe.

He told the angel, “I have left the best for last”. God said, “I have here the real meaning of human life, the treasure of life, the purpose and goal of all this that I have created”. “Because this treasure is valuable beyond description, I want you to hide it. Hide this treasure so well that human beings will know its value to be immeasurable.”

Angel recommended hidden location such as highest mountain top, great desert wilderness, vast reaches of universe. God refused. Finally God said, “Hide treasure of life within the human being. He will look there last and know how precious this treasure is. Yes hide the treasure there”.

2. This treasure and the search for it are the real goal for me – the life’s journey.

3. The phenomenal universe is impermanent and constantly changing, evolving, growing, decaying and dying. It goes on endlessly this way – coming, going, dying. That is the nature/society.

4. Man, who gets attached to the Nature/Society (the phenomenal universe) with all of its changing forms is sure to come to grief in the end. At the same time, the nature/society plays an important role in helping to achieve the realm/state of self-realization/immortal.

5. The pain and fear of death that are natural to the nature/society (material world) are meant to guide a person the ‘treasure’.

6. A time comes when the individual realizes that there must be more to existence then this. Then he/she begins to seriously look for an alternative as the ultimate purpose of life.

7. The treasure has numerous definitions:
1. Bible calls it the image and likeness of God.
2. Hinduism calls it Atma or the Real-Self.
3. Judaism calls it the Light.
4. This real self is not recognizable by the 5-senses or the human mind. It is hidden treasure within the soul, and dwells in the innermost chamber of the ‘heart’. It is very subtle, unfathomable, and eternal. It existed at beginning of creation, exists now, and will continue to exist in the future.
5. Because of Man’s ignorance of this highest Truth of inner self, he has created the imbalance in the Nature/Society and in his life.
6. Eliminating the mind and ego by desensitizing the senses are the primary paths to the Heaven/Enlightenment/Divinity/Realization.
7. Service to others helps to reduce personal desires, makes one humble, and eliminated the internal devils - pride, ego, hatred, jealousy, lust, etc.
8. Ultimately my life is about ‘unlearning’ the bad and learning about the ONE. It should be about ‘selflessly serving’ others as His instrument in the dram of life. After knowing and learning all of that, only thing that matters to Him is how well did I practice the unwavering universal Human Values of Truth, Love, Peace, Righteousness, Non-Violence; which ultimately brings me closer to the doors of Heaven – the seat of the universal Soul/Atma.