In the business of helping purpose-driven organizations succeed, we all know that it's all about relationship. Yet, networks and organization leaders prefer to put their goals and agenda front and centre. When they're unsuccessful in putting their agenda on the table, the focus on relationship becomes fickle and shallow.

We need to redeem how we make business with one another. Instead of profiting from relationship, we should ask ourselves, how our relationships not just give us what we want in terms of vested interests but also allow us the opportunity to examine our understanding of our organizations and the world we live in.

If we prioritize relationships before our own sacred goals, we do not lose even though we might not get what we want. If we prioritize being in-community with one another instead of competing for those limited funds and scarce resources, we are less about scarcity but more of generosity. If we understand that when an organization or a leader succeeds, there are hundreds more that can benefit from a simple stroke of convergence. If we lift one up, we know that this person will one day lift more people as they rise up from their own struggles. 

Hence, when was the last time you forge a relationship between and within and outside your own networks and systems, without any vested agenda or purpose at all? Sounds too saintly? No! It's our business to make purpose-driven organizations more more purposeful towards humanity. It's our business to keep kindness our agenda. 

I was reading an article a month ago and this movement has its published list of mistakes since 5 years ago. Every year, they owned their mistakes to their constituencies, members, and the general public. Reading this gives me an insight that they are truly a learning organization with the discipline to not put things under the rug or water down certain actions that almost put their organization into peril.

I have written about organizations that are learning and unlearning at the same time. This dual movement requires that they take courage to face the missteps and act to reverse or mitigate those. This is not just transparency par excellence. This is living what they basically put in their values poster or their values statements. At the end of the day, either you really live it or you just mouth it for the sake.

Kudos to this strong organization that is not afraid to say they are wrong when present evidence suggests otherwise or current analysis remits an error of judgement.

We fully know by way of hindsight and much of that learning comes from consciously improving every year. How hard is it to simply say, "we made some mistakes. Learn with us and from us.

I have been asked how will I integrate diversity in the classroom considering adult learner, aboriginal learners, learners with different orientation and abilities, and other points of differences exists.

I knew that with the hype on diversities and some of them definitely misplaced. I said that, "Diversity is our greater common denominator as Canadians." 

I arrived in Canada in the summer of 2010 from the Philippines. I'm as diverse as any other Canadians that were born here or have arrived from some where in the last 30 years or recently.
Some Canadians have diversities that are not physically visible and these diversities are as valid as other protected areas of difference.

The fact that this is seldom acknowledged brings to the point that everyone of us is unique. That diversity is not just about providing preferential treatment to those that are historically marginalized or excluded or experienced inequities. We have the whole spectrum of diversities for which everyone must respect and recognize if we want to live and work harmoniously and effectively together as communities.

Having said that, I heard the loudest agreement from the questioning group. We agree that diversity is our common bond so let's make this diversity our greatest asset not a hindrance to building up common goals.