Theme

Purpose

  • Karma Yoga – the Contribution Perspective

    The contribution ideal is the intermediate stage between a life of self-centeredness and a life of unselfishness. This ideal is in itself valuable and inspiring for individuals who are presently…

  • Contribution Thinking: 6 key principles

    Contribution Thinking is a powerful paradigm for reconceptualizing our work and careers. This paradigm is built around six key principles: One, contribution thinking means making a positive difference to (i)…

  • Learning to Contribute – an approach to Karma Yoga

    Karma Yoga and ‘We’ Karma Yoga means attaining spiritual illumination by doing unselfish work. This is the highest ideal for work. However, most of us, who are struggling to break…

  • The quality of purpose

    Living purposefully has two aspects to it: (i) The depth of one’s own engagement with purpose (ii) The scope or range of one’s purpose Let us explore both dimensions. Scope…

  • The challenge of integrating purpose and context

    Holding on to purpose does not come easy, and takes many years of genuine struggle for both individuals and collectives. The central challenge is the context we live in –…

  • Purpose: A source of emotional maturity

    What brings emotional maturity?Being deeply resolved. How can one be deeply resolved?Through an intrinsic purpose.And by organizing one’s intentionality around this intrinsic purpose.

  • Creating sustainability in organizations– The centrality of purpose

    The design of enabling structures in organizations is to be seen as part of a fundamental “system” of intertwined perspectives. The resolution of these four dimensions or perspectives can be…

  • Designing a Strategy for Human Fulfillment

    I Emotion is the most primal energy in man. It is the source of all beauty, all passion, all pursuit of ‘meaning’ in existence. Emotion is also a product of…