 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Over the years, I have seen and recognized
the enormous effect of the CEO’s personality and ‘way of being’ on the
energy of a company. All personalities have limitations and drawbacks.
But when somebody has the top position in a system, the effect of what
they focus on and what they suppress is immense. Whatever a CEO’s
automatic way of relating to the world, whatever their way of dealing
with relationships, or with conflict, or with results and measurement,
or with finances or thinking, gets reflected throughout the
organization. Too many CEOs only allow real creative thinking in the
areas that interest them and simply avoid those areas that appear more
threatening. Now this is human nature, and it’s to be expected. But if
CEOs could begin to see the world in energetic terms, they would see
the suppressive affect of some of their behavior on the energy of their
company and people’s power to execute the very things they most want
implemented. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Of great influence in my thinking has been The Urban Shaman
by Serge Kahlili King. One of his assertions was that “energy flows
where the attention goes.” My work was always shaped by where the CEO
or the leader was putting his or her attention. My life is shaped by
where I’m putting my attention. And with everybody I knew, their lives
were affected by where they placed their attention. What I hadn’t seen
before was that energy accompanied attention and that certain kinds of
attention enhanced energy. In organizations, outward results can be
directly linked to the energy created from where the attention flows. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
During the second year in my transition from a static world to an
energetic-based point of view, I took a training program with a Mexican
teacher, Victor Sanchez, who had studied and lived with the Toltec
Indians in northern Mexico. Victor had developed a coherent conceptual
framework that was very much based on energy. Lorin Smith didn’t have a
lot of explanation for what he did. He just did it, and I saw that he
was working with fundamental energies. Victor Sanchez, in contrast, was
a scholar as well as a teacher. He said that the Toltec Indians
believed that the world does not consist of objects. Rather, they
believe the world consists of interacting energy fields and that the
systems with greatest available energy will prevail.[ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Lorin
Smith had developed his own healing practice based on massage, singing,
dance, telling stories. As I came to know him over time, I saw he could
look at a person, individual, or look at a group, and see exactly what
kind of energy was missing. He could see where the joy was missing, or
where the relationship was missing. He could see whether people didn’t
mean what they said. He could see how their bodies were contracted or
turned against themselves or twisted out of shape. He had an ability to
see what I was not trained to see. I could already sense some of this
in my work with groups, but I was not really construing it in any kind
of energetic framework as he did. And what he was able to produce, in
terms of sick people getting better or groups going from non-directed
to focused, was very fast and remarkable. It was as though he was
breathing life—breathing energy—into them. And he would do whatever he
needed to do, whatever he could think of to do, given his particular
talent, culture, and repertoire. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
This is my
personal journey, how I came from seeing organizations as static
objects, to seeing them as interacting energy fields. It began six
years ago, when I was the owner of a 16-person organization development
and training firm. We helped companies with strategic visioning,
culture change projects, coaching programs, and project effectiveness.
I built the business from a $25.00-a-day practice in 1969 to over $2.5
million in annual revenues in 1993, with the promise of continued
doubling in growth.
I didn’t sleep very well during those
years. [ Read More]
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