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Yin and Yang
Yin and Yang. Hot and cold. Male and female. The philosophy of yin and yang
lies at the heart of Chinese culture. The first references to yin and yang
come from the I Ching, the five classic works compiled and edited
by Confucius. Taken literally, yin
and yang mean the dark side and sunny side of a hill. People commonly think
of yin and yang as opposing forces. However, it is really more appropriate
to view them as complementary pairs. The Chinese believe problems arise not
when the two forces are battling, but when there is an imbalance between
them in the environment. Floods, divorce, or even a fire in the kitchen -
all can be attributed to disharmony in the forces of yin and yang.
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Yin-Yang of
Happiness
Balanced Organization:
5 Basic Elements
Corporate Culture
(Earth):
Corporate culture inspires people and nurtures
an attitude of relentless growth...
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Balanced Approach to Business Systems
A business is more than finance. Performance measures need to
be aligned with the organization's strategy.
The Business Systems
approach
considers business as system of interrelated factors of
strategy,
owners,
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investors,
management,
workers,
finance,
processes,
products,
suppliers,
customers, and
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competitors...
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The Tao of Business Success
The
Tao
helps you achieve much more with much
less effort. This effortless skill comes from being in accord with reality.
You can't tell the singer from the song. You can't tell the dancer from the
dance. When you are in harmony with the Tao, when you go with its current
of energy, your innate intelligence takes over, and the right action happens
by itself.
The Tao of Business Success
helps you achieve much more with much
less effort. It gives you advice that imparts perspective and
balance.
It applies equally well to
the managing
of a large corporation or the running of a small business...
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Buddhism: The Value of Leading a
Balanced Life
Balance is a key element of a
happy
life. Dalai Lama
teaches, 'A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid
extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday
existence. It is important in all aspects of life.
For instance, in planting
a sapling of a plant or a tree, at its very early stage you have to be very
skillful and gentle.
Too much moisture will destroy it, too much sunlight
will destroy it. Too little will also destroy it. So what you need is a very
balanced environment where the sapling can have a healthy growth. Or, for a
person's physical health, too much or too little of any one thing can have
destructive effects. For example, too much protein is bad, and too little is
bad.
'This gentle and skillful approach, taking care to avoid
extremes, applies to healthy mental and emotional growth as well. For
instance, if we find ourselves becoming arrogant, being puffed up by
self-importance based on one's supposed or actual achievement or qualities,
then the antidote is to think more about one's own problems and suffering,
contemplating the unsatisfactory aspects of existence.
This will assist you
in bringing down the level of your heightened state of mind, bringing you
more down to earth. An on the contrary, if you find that reflecting on the
unsatisfactory nature of existence, suffering and pain, and so forth, makes
you feel quite overwhelmed by the whole thing, then, again, there's a danger
of going to the other extreme. In that case you might become totally
discouraged, helpless and depressed... So under such circumstances, it's
important to be able to uplift your mind by reflecting on your achievements,
the progress that you have made so far, and your other positive qualities so
that you can uplift your mind, and get out of that discouraged or
demoralized state of mind. So what is required here is a kind of very
balanced and skillful approach.'1
"The universe is completely
balanced and in perfect order.
You will always be compensated for everything
that you do."
~
Brian Tracy
Chinese Herbal
Medicine
Chinese herbs are very versatile supplements. While each
Chinese herb serves a different purpose in building one's health, there are
countless ways to brew a prescription. The key to finding a remedy lies in
selecting the right mix of herbs while striking a balance.
Balanced
Manager
Effective
managerial leadership demands a delicate
balance between sensitivity and authority, between the whole and the
parts, between
loose and
tight
leadership style, between functional expertise (depth of
knowledge) and
cross-functional excellence (width of
knowledge), internal (creating value for
organization and employees) and external
(creating value for investors,
customers, and
society as a whole).
To manage
knowledge workers effectively in the modern
knowledge-driven enterprise,
modern
manager should balance
management
with
leadership and
coaching...
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Balanced Strategy
Sustainable growth
strategy requires balancing short-term results against long-term
capabilities and
growth opportunities.
Companies should think in different 'time
horizons' – both short-term and long-term – when setting strategy, establish
proper organizational processes that monitor their health and change the
nature of their dialogue with stakeholders.
SWOT Analysis, where SWOT
stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, is a
strategic planning tried and tested
technique that is normally adopted for obtaining a balanced perspective.
Change
Management
If you wish to
manage change effectively, you need to
understand that the way people behave is a balancing act – they balance the
forces that act upon them. Some of these forces are trying to get people to
change their behavior and others are trying to restrain or limit that
change...
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Case in Point
Silicon
Valley Companies
Decide If Your Innovation Portfolio Has Enough
Stretch
Adapted from Relentless Growth, Christopher
Meyer
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Balance between revolutionary and
evolutionary initiatives. First, Silicon Valley companies assess the
overall balance between
revolutionary and evolutionary projects. The ultimate arbitrator of
portfolio stretch if the innovation leaders’ judgment, experience,
intuition, and luck.
Adaptive Organization
Finding a Balance between Chaos and Order
If you wish your organization to be better able to survive
and prosper in today's uncertain and turbulent times, you should raise a
creative tension. To achieve this, you must move your organization to the
point at which a natural balance is found between chaos and order,
comparable to the conditions in the evolving natural world.
Effective Leadership
Balance isn’t an issue of time, but an issue of choice. It’s about living
your values by aligning your behavior with what you believe is really
important.
Leadership is imperative for molding a group of
people into a team, shaping them into a force that serves as a
sustainable competitive advantage.
Leader know how to make people function in a
collaborative fashion, and how to motivate them to excel their performance.
Leaders also know how to balance the individual team member's quest
with the goal of producing
synergy - an outcome that exceeds the sum of individual
inputs. Leaders require that their team members forego the quest for
personal best in concert with the team effort.2
Balanced Organization...
Balanced Organizational Goals...
Results-based
Leadership...
Balanced Approach to
Organizational Change
Management...
Balance between Authority and
Employee
Empowerment...
Strategic Leadership...
Principle-centered Leadership...
Intuitive
Management...
Entrepreneur – a
Negative Optimist...
Sustainable Value
Creation...
Investment
Portfolio...
Using an Innovation
Portfolio...
Venture Financing...
Case in Point
Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI), United Kingdom...
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