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In this blog post, I want to encourage you all to attend the 2026 Adizes International Convention in Kanha, India, from October 21 to 25, 2026.

So far, in all the fifty or so conventions we have held, I have never written a message encouraging associates to attend. This one is special, and here is why.

What is Adizes about? The essence. Not the mechanics.

Humanity started as chimpanzees. The strongest was the leader. Then we became a nomadic society. The strongest hunter was the leader. Then an agricultural society. The person with the most possessions, in sheep or land, was the leader. Common denominators: muscle, power, and possession.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, and the brain emerged as the critical variable for success—to plan, organize, and manage budgets, people, etc. Success relied on power, muscles, and the brain.

Now, we live in a post-industrial society where the brain plays the dominant role. Work that requires muscle—manual labor—we outsource to developing nations. Today, power is in the brain. The biggest company in the hospitality industry does not own a single hotel. All they have are computers, information, and the know-how to manage it. I am referring to Airbnb. The same is true for the largest transportation company in the world—Uber.

But the brain is on its way out, being replaced by AI and quantum computing.

What is the future, then? The heart.

Companies managed by values. By compassion. By love.

If humanity does not develop love and the heart, then Nazi Germany was not an accident in the history of mankind. It had brain and muscle, but not the heart. If we do not learn how to manage with the heart, Nazi Germany was merely introducing our future.

We need to learn how to manage with love and with the heart—not only with the brain or the depth of the pockets we want to fill.

And what is the heart? What is love, if not mutual respect and trust combined with compassion? It is the honest INTEGRATION that present—and increasingly, future—organizations will need.

As change accelerates, it causes organizational disintegration. Our role is to institutionalize ongoing processes and systems of continuous reintegration, based on a culture of mutual trust and respect. And that is done not only with our brains, but with our hearts, too.

The Adizes methodology excels at developing mutual respect. We are in the process of learning how to develop mutual trust. Compassion and love—for each other, for our clients, for our products and services, and for the world we live in—are what we need to develop if we are going to lead the changes humanity needs now.

Kanha, the global center of Heartfulness meditation, teaches how to open our hearts and practice love through meditation.

If you have read my life story in The Accordion Player, you know I struggled with the concept and practice of love all my life. That changed when I attended Kanha. That is where I opened my heart for the first time, and each time I visited, I learned more about how to feel. How to love. I experienced love, and it opened my heart.

I do not know anyone who has visited Kanha and did not come away with insights about life that enriched them.

It would be my dream if Adizes sessions—instead of starting or ending with "How do you feel?", which I increasingly find people answering without true feeling—could instead include a ten-minute meditation focusing on the heart. It will help reinforce what we teach and preach about Mutual Trust and Respect.

I know it is a long trip, but trust me, it will be a unique experience for whoever attends.

You will experience how love works. The place is built with love, managed with love, and you will feel it in every tree, in every flower, and in how the residents greet us.

Kanha is what the world should be.

So, come. Do not miss it. Trust me, it is worth the journey.

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Please do not delay in making your arrangements. You can get more information for the convention by clicking the link below. Let us embark on this journey to the heart together.

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