Category Archives: Purpose and Values

“This Tip is on Purpose”

By John Evelyn  |  August 28, 2009  |  Adversity,Alignment,Blind Spots,Capability,Execution,Fit for purpose,Leadership,Purpose and Values,Tapestry of your life,Vision

You did that on purpose!” I often hear that when someone’s about to get it for a misdeed. It differentiates those actions that are done with intent from those not by mistake or accidentally. So, the word purpose can be used to differentiate a special cause from a random cause. In this case, it takes on the differentiator for indictment, something a prosecutor might want to propose (ironic, that purpose and propose share the same etymological genealogy)
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“Warming Up To Global Warming”

By John Evelyn  |  August 21, 2009  |  Adversity,General,Integrity,Legacy,Leverage,Purpose and Values,Resources,Sustainability,Tapestry of your life,Technology,Vision,Winning

Something very warming is happening globally. It’s not the Fahrenheit or Celsius climactic kind, but has a very atmospheric feel to it. It is rolling as a blanketing storm across the virtual and social networks that our web enables in connectivity.
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“The Summer of 69”

By John Evelyn  |  July 20, 2009  |  Adversity,Agility,Alignment,Capability,Competition,Execution,Leadership,Leverage,Purpose and Values,Resources,Teamwork,Technology,Vision,Winning

It was the summer of 1969, a hot, balmy Miami midsummer night, and I was between high school graduation and my first quarter at college. For me, the summer of 69 represented a big transition from the euphoria and fun …
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Thanksgiving in July

By John Evelyn  |  July 3, 2009  |  Adversity,Purpose and Values,Respect,Tapestry of your life

This weekend, on July 4, many of us in the United States celebrate Independence Day. It is typically festive, replete with parades, picnics, gatherings, speeches, and breathtaking fireworks. I feel very lucky, as I was given the choice and opportunity …
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Hey, Is That Your Relic?

By John Evelyn  |  June 29, 2009  |  Capability,Competition,Fit for purpose,Leadership,Legacy,Purpose and Values,Sustainability,Tapestry of your life,Vision

Our world and economic order continues its journey through a Darwinian evolution. Looking back, we can readily observe transition points where new entrants or renewed players were better suited to succeed and those less adaptive or endowed, diminished and some …
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“There Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”

By John Evelyn  |  June 26, 2009  |  Adversity,Leadership,Purpose and Values,Tapestry of your life,Teamwork,Winning

I was scared, whole body from toes to top of head scared. First, before I started, I was certain that I would fail miserably and lose all credibility and self respect. Then, when I did start, I was sure I was not going to make it and get really sick in front of them. I remember that day over 14 years ago as if it was yesterday. I also remember what a difference a person makes in your life and in the colors of the tapestry of your life.

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“The Suit of Happiness”

By John Evelyn  |  June 24, 2009  |  Capability,Diagnosis,Fit for purpose,General,Integrity,Leadership,Operational Excellence,Purpose and Values,Tailoring

“Every happy family is the same, but unhappy families are all different.”  The opening of the Leo Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina, captures our attention and immediately triggers a reflection of our personal perspective. I have no competence to comment on …
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He is heavy, … , he ain’t my brother …

By John Evelyn  |  June 19, 2009  |  Execution,Integrity,Leadership,Purpose and Values,Transparency,Vision

As I observe the early days of a new era in governance, one that increases the role and authority of government regulation and central planning, I am saddened. I am saddened by the foreseeable consequences of constraining innovation and reinvention that are necessary to succeed, even survive, in this complex multi-polar world. I am saddened because most regulation is earned. It is earned by the guilty and implemented onto the innocent as a general rule. Leadership and stewardship gave way to greed, discarded integrity, illusionary value creation, and the uncontrolled behemoths that emerged in this interconnected virtual business landscape. Algorithms replaced decisions and the perversion of the foundations based on earning and affording what you own turned the American dream that I have lived as a naturalized American into a nightmare that has not yet ended.
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Fly Me To The Moon, … , And Let Me Dream ……

By John Evelyn  |  June 17, 2009  |  Adversity,Execution,Leadership,Purpose and Values,Tapestry of your life,Vision

Have you ever been part of something really remarkable? I mean, something that changes you inside and out,  and makes such a difference that it becomes a big part of the tapestry of your life? Have you experienced it more …
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May I Have a Word with You? …. Values.

By John Evelyn  |  June 10, 2009  |  General,Leadership,Purpose and Values,Transparency

“Values” is a word that I hear often. I hear it when people read from a wallet card they keep. I read it from organizational documentation and hall posters, often completing a trilogy with vision and mission, the three amigos
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