Four Quotient thoughts for
OWIT Lake Geneva lunch, Lausanne on 3 Feb 2014
"There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house
of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of
us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every
room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete
person."
Rumer Godden
I work with what I call the four quotients in both my life and work.
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PQ - physical - To Live - Human Living
IQ - mental - To Learn - Human Doing
EQ - emotional - To Love - Human Being
SQ - spiritual - To Leave a Legacy - Being Human
In my diary I write an activity for each of these each day to which I commit
myself to.
As Stephen Covey often said - "The most important thing, is to decide
what is important" and then to put that in FIRST into your daily life.
For example some say that their children are the most important thing in their
life and then spend most of their working life and their children's crucial
growing up stage, attempting to earn money which they say will make their
kids 'safe'. Ask any child what makes them feel most valued or even safe ...it's
called time with their parents!
In life, surely our No 1 aim, is to live for as long as we can as healthily as we
can?
If that is the case, we need to spend time in each 'room' each day to ensure
there is a healthy balance that enables continual growth, development and
sustainability.
Too many people live as though they will live forever, even while not
exercising, eating and drinking too much and becoming overweight, possibly
even smoking or taking drugs!
How many of us are:
Too busy to exercise? (PQ & IQ)
Too busy to 'eat well'? (PQ)
Too busy to 'relax'? (EQ& SQ)
Too busy to spend time with their family? (EQ & SQ)
Too busy to read new material? (IQ)
Too busy to contact friends? (EQ & SQ)
Too busy to meditate (PQ& IQ & EQ & SQ)
Too busy to go on a retreat? (PQ & IQ & EQ & SQ)
Too busy to live? (PQ - IQ - EQ & SQ)
I am not saying it is easy to live healthily, when there are so many pressures
around and so few peers seeking a long and healthy life - it is however very
very clear, how one has to live to have the best chance,,,,,,,,,,,,and most do
NOT do it.
Unhealthy businesses are no different..........in fact I often call what they do as too many people do - 'busyness' - as they do not take nearly enough time
to connect and engage with their employees. Just the same way most people
do not take time to connect to themselves.
As I go around working with organisations in all three sectors, what I find, is
that most people / teams / organisations are now too 'busy' to build
sustainable, high performing and effective teams.
In fact even in the breaks and over lunch these days - delegates go straight
on their phones or tablets or lap tops to do 'stuff' - while sitting next to
colleagues that they would say they do not have enough time to spend quality
time with!!!
Well here they are sitting next to each other - doing the self same 'busyness'
thing!!
In general people have lost the ability to back up what they know with
proactive healthy behaviour, they have been sucked into the do - do - do
culture of today and have forgotten how to simply 'be'.
And if people cannot do it - that means teams and organisations will find it
mostly impossible!
Not much healthy future there for our communities.
On February 3rd we can explore:
• What is effective in each quotient - especially SQ?
• Is there a quotient order that is best?
• How can a company address this for its employees?
• The future of staff development is far more EQ &SQ than yet more IQ!
• How you can measure each quotient?
The healthy society, like the healthy body, is not the one that has taken the
most reactive medicine - pills (person) or EFQM / Six Sigma / ISO 9000 et al
(business). It is the one in which the internal health building forces are in best
shape.
The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people,
and their failure to lead. Too many settle for being critics and experts. There is
too much intellectual wheel spinning, too much retreating into “research”, too
little preparation for and willingness to undertake the hard and high risk tasks
of building better institutions in an imperfect world, too little disposition to
see “the problem” as residing in here and not out there.
In short the enemy is strong natural people who have the potential to
lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-leader. They suffer.
Society suffers. And so it may be in the future.
Four quotient living is about leadership.
First about self and then and only then about your workplace.
How are you living your life with the four parts of your existence?
An exploration of the 4 Quotients
&
Leadership
PQ
Doing
IQ
Thinking
EQ
Emotioning
SQ
Being
Working
To live
Athlete
Pendency
Body
Function
Control of Self
(body functions)
Managing
To Learn
Warrior
Dependency
Head
Facts
Control Over
(Use / abuse?) of
power)
Competence
Money
Human-doing
Knowledge
Regulations
Dictating
Cleverness
Conscious
Incompetence
Them
(Blame)
Leading
To Love
Statesman
Independency
Heart
Feelings
Control Through
(Use of
authority)
Character
Momentum
Human-being
Desire
Relationships
Debating
Wisdom
Conscious
Competence
Us
(Part
ownership)
Serving
To Leave a Legacy
Spirit
Interdependency
Soul
Intuitions
Control of Self
(Behaviour - Use of
own values)
Creation
Meaning
Being Human
Belief
‘Redemption’
Dialoging
Serenity
Unconscious
Competence
Me
(Complete
ownership)
Conforming
Matter
Human Living
Existence
Reactionary
Doing
Functional
Unconscious
Incompetence
I
(Isolated)
LES MORGAN
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