Net Impact Seattle :: Professional Chapter

Book: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
When: Wednesday, January 30, 3013, at 7:00 PM
Cost: Free to Net Impact members; Limit of 8 attendees
RSVP: Email Lisa
Location: TBA, (Capital Hill). Address will be provided when you RSVP.

Most of us believe that we will finally feel satisfied and content with our lives when we get the good news we have been waiting for, find a healthy relationship, or achieve one of our personal goals. However, this rarely happens. Good fortune is often followed by negative emotions that overtake us and result in destructive behaviors. “I don’t deserve this,” “this is too good to be true,” or any number of harmful thought patterns prevent us from experiencing the joy and satisfaction we have earned. Sound familiar? This is what New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks calls the Upper Limit Problem, a negative emotional reaction that occurs when anything positive enters our lives. The Upper Limit Problem not only prevents happiness, but it actually stops us from achieving our goals. It is the ultimate life roadblock.

In The Big Leap, Hendricks reveals a simple yet comprehensive program for overcoming this barrier to happiness and fulfillment, presented in a way that engages both the mind and heart. Working closely with more than one thousand extraordinary achievers in business and the arts—from rock stars to Fortune 500 executives—whose stories are featured in these pages, the book describes the four hidden fears that are at the root of the Upper Limit Problem.

The Big Leap delivers a proven method for first identifying which of these four fears prevents us from reaching our personal upper limit, and then breaking through that limitation to achieve what Hendricks refers to as our Zone of Genius. Hendricks provides a clear path for achieving our true potential and attaining not only financial success but also success in love and life. (AMAZON)

For more information is available on the website or at Amazon.com.

For more information on this and future book club meetings, refer to the Seattle Net Impact website.

Book: The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success
When: CANCELLED
Cost: Free to Net Impact members; Limit of 8 attendees
RSVP: Email Lisa
Location: TBA. Address will be provided when you RSVP.

The Responsible Business offers a new and strategic approach to doing business that holistically integrates responsibility into all aspects of an organization, allowing for returns at every level, business and social. This book goes beyond the often well intentioned but limited attempts at sustainability to present a framework that allows organizations to bring responsibility into everything they do and re-imagine success. From innovation, product development, and production processes to business management, strategic planning, and shareholder development, the author shows how being a Responsible Business is a practical skill that can be applied day-to-day at every level of the business. No longer just the role of a department or the job of CSR professionals, successful responsibility and business efforts start at the business level, are then taken to the corporate level, and are finally applied throughout the organization. The Responsible Business outlines a framework for building a responsibility and consciousness infrastructure that applies a living systems view to the business and inspires all of its stakeholders, including shareholders. Throughout the book, illustrated by examples from technology to manufacturing, large and small, public and private, Sanford demonstrates how to make responsibility integral to all aspects of a business as an engine for innovation, profitability, and purpose (AMAZON).

More information about the book is available here.

Learn more about the author here.

For more information about this and future book club meetings, refer to our Book Club page on our website.

Do you want to use your business skills to give back to your community?
Do you want to work with other professionals interested in using business for social and environmental good?

If so, you should apply to join the Net Impact Seattle Professional Chapter’s Service Corps inaugural program with our partner Northwest Center! In this program you will learn more about the challenges our community faces through volunteering your time to work on a project for a local non profit.

Northwest Center has served people with developmental conditions like autism, down syndrome, and cerebral palsy for over 46 years. The organization is operated through a unique social enterprise model, owning and operating thirteen competitive commercial businesses that create unrestricted flows of income that are reinvested in their Northwest Center Kids and Northwest Center Works operating divisions to supplement public funding.

For more information on Northwest Center, head to: www.nwcenter.org

This Service Corps project is an opportunity to experience first hand how the proven, highly-evolved techniques of business can be used to create justice in our community. The Service Corps project is “emergent” in the sense that whatever actions the project team decides to take will be a function of its response to the experience of inclusion and the use of business to drive social good.

Key Volunteer Qualifications

• Ability to commit to the Service Corps time requirement of 15-20 hours per month of work for three months
• Specific business skills and experience (consulting, marketing, strategy, etc)
• Openness to learning from nonprofit
• Appreciation/sensitivity to nonprofit sector challenges
• Flexibility

If you are interested, please download the Service Corps Volunteer Application 2012 and submit to seattleservicecorps@gmail.com by November 12th. Any questions should be directed to the same email address.

We look forward to hearing from you!