The Presidio Dialogues

Our Dialogue in April lead to a wonderful evening of heartfelt sharing from
everyone that attended.

Our topic for the evening was, "When a Companies highest values lead,
Profits Follow".

Gil Friend, the CEO of Natural Logic was our first Dialogue starter.

The first thing he did was to re-read the topic of the evening and then he
said "Of coarse this is not true!"

He went on to clarify that it is not a "given" that companies following
their highest values will always have their efforts lead to generating
profits but that it is "a hypothesis that I choose to believe".

Thus began our evening of deeply exploring this topic.

Other comments that were shared in our circle were:

"There are many companies that are good examples of the business case for a
sincere commitment to Social Responsibility"

"Our purpose is to further life!"

"Odwalla's commitment to sustain the earth came back to sustain Odwalla"

"Where attention goes, energy flows'

"What makes God get up in the morning! Surprise!"

2 Questions: "What do you want"..."What do you really want"

In reflecting back on the evening's Dialogue, what stood out for me was this
sense that when high values and ideals start to genuinely inform and guide a
company a tremendous amount of positive energy becomes available to that
company.

People become "thrilled" with their work. Ideals give birth to innovation
and problems or regulations become business opportunities that CAN lead to
real and enduring profitability.

Siri Vedya Singh
Executive Director
The Presidio Dialogues