Principles

In a rapidly changing world of complexity and uncertainty, wisdom is the creative use of awareness, experience, and insight to achieve breakthrough results. In serving clients, Chris applies these guiding wisdom principles:

Individual

• Self-awareness is the key to true power and personal growth.
• Attention is never about time and always about priority.
• Flow is positive equanimity in the dynamic energy field of each day.
• Small moves build on each other over time to make a big difference.
• Meaning comes from purpose, service, impact, and coherence.

Organization

• Mission reflects a clear, elevating, and shared purpose.
• Strategy guides activity for getting, serving, and keeping customers.
• Leadership teams should be focused, aligned, and capable.
• Capability relates to innovation, revenue generation, and operations.
• Culture establishes the conditions for people to do their best work.
• Value creation is driven by productive enterprise collaboration.

Leadership

• Leaders lead themselves first and build trust through integrity.
• Leaders know how the enterprise works as a system.
• Leaders exude positive energy and inspire hope about the future.
• Leaders clearly communicate the critical-few priorities.
• Leaders shape culture and empower people.
• Leaders relentlessly question, listen, and improve.
• Leaders develop and apply an honest perception of reality.
• Leaders build high-performing teams.
• Leaders integrate authority and authentic power.
• Leaders are healthy in mind, body, and spirit.

Community

• We are all connected and interdependent in a relational world.
• Diversity and inclusion are essential for creativity, quality, and resilience.
• Use common sense to seek common ground for the common good.
• Do the right things in the right ways for the right reasons.