The Tipu Ake concept our guests Peter Goldsbury and Chris Eketone covered in our January 30th podcast has initially been cast as a rediscovered leadership model for innovative organizations, and is based, as was explained in the podcast itself, on key teachings derived from the Maori culture. Tipu Ake ki te Ora itself, as Mr. Goldsbury explained, means “growing from within ever upwards towards wellbeing”. Ora itself refers to the central Maori concept of well-being.
All of this is explained in more detail in the podcast itself,
in other materials within the central Tipu Ake resource site, at:
and in a paper Mr. Goldsbury presented in the fall of 2004 (which we highly recommend you download):
We have several questions to pose to our “blogging” audience out there regarding Tipu Ake:
1) What are your overall thoughts as to the power and broad usefulness of the Tipu Ake “model” as it becomes more broadly known outside of the home of the Maori peoples?
2) With its clear parallels to themes we have discussed in our Stranova podcasts several times before, about business and strategy as simply smaller systems within a broader overall “market and stakeholder ecosystem” for the business segment being examined, are there ways that the Tipu Ake ki te Ora concepts and “Lifecycle” model may help guide us in applying Tipu Ake beyond its current main implementations in innovative leadership and program management, and into the whole arena of broad business planning and strategic innovation?
3) How would you consider making use of the concepts we’ve reviewed here in some of your own current management and business planning issues?
4) How might these ideas be applied to broader social and global issues facing our world?
5) Do you have suggestions for how the Tipu Ake concepts might be more broadly communicated to others throughout the world?
In addition to the above questions, because we also hope to hear from many of those close to the original Tipu Ake activities, at the Auckland University of Technology, students, faculty, and adminstrators at the Te Whaiti school, and those in business and government within New Zealand who have have had a chance to apply the Tipu Ake principles already, we also have a final question in this group:
6) For those that have already experienced Tipu Ake directly, how do you believe using these ideas has helped transform and improve the capabilities of your schools and organizations, and what lessons have you learned that you would like to pass on to all of us to consider?
For those that haven’t yet had the opportunity to listen to our current podcast on Tipu Ake, you can listen to a “streaming audio” version of it by clicking here:
Stranova Vol. 13, “Tipu Ake ki te Ora”, with guests Peter Goldsbury and Chris Eketone
So — let’s hear from you! Click on the “comments” word in blue directly below this article, scroll down, and a comment box will open for you. Your posts will generally be “up” on the blog within a short time.
And don’t forget: you can also write us directly at: Ideas@Stranova.com. We’d love to hear your thoughts that way as well.
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Thank you Stranova…As I listened to Peter speak I became even more excited about the Tipu Ake Retreat I’ll be attending at the beginning of March in New Zealand. Stranova has been the link, the connector and I am so very greatful for that.
As an OD Consultant for 28 years I know that the Tipu Ake model ~ a model that marries the inner and the out world, a model that honors creativity, connection, manifestation, a model that embraces bodymindspirit, a model that focuses on growth, the deepening and expanding our our experience makes sense. This model is inclusive and begins with connection, within ourselves, within our relationships, our famlies, our workplace, our community, our world.
I have already spoken with one of my clients in NYC about sharing my experience of Tipu Ake with them when I return from New Zealand.