A short, fascinating look into the industry behind 90% of our global transportation system. Journalist Rose George's TEDTalk covers the crew, fuels, piracy, and marine life. Upon reflection, it is surprising how little we ever hear about this ... [Continue Reading]
What does your brand really stand for?
One of the initiatives that I have been focused on over the past several months is helping to create and deliver a public offering on "creating your authentic brand", through my business Career Coaching International. The word choice "authentic" is ... [Continue Reading]
For real and lasting change, build in “drip-feeding”
Last weekend, I spent my Sunday facilitating a fairly large not-for-profit board of a national association. My remit was two-fold; first, to help them develop an action plan for a major internal (mandatory) initiative spanning about 10 months, and ... [Continue Reading]
Want to transform into a high performance business?
I've been thinking about this question a lot lately, as I work to better relate my own "transformation" value proposition into language meaningful and attractive to my clients. I mean, who wouldn't want to own and operate a "high performance ... [Continue Reading]
Change management? Change required = management
Last evening I sat through a very informative presentation given by a colleague of mine; the topic was on why Canadian industry is suffering from an "innovation gap" (comparatively speaking, based on international ranking systems) and what the ... [Continue Reading]
Are you a reluctant change agent?
A few days ago I was in Maryland visiting with some good friends. We had a thoughtful discussion about "change", in which they suggested that most people are forced through circumstances to deal with all kinds of change. Family issues. Career ... [Continue Reading]
What makes an effective change agent?
I've been mulling this question over for some time now, partly as (one of many) ways of continually improving my own articulation of my value proposition and brand as a "change guy". Here's my short list for how one should approach a potential ... [Continue Reading]
Weighing in on the “unpaid internship” debate
On a local radio call-in talk show today, the subject was "unpaid internships". It's been in the news a lot recently, and it seems to me that a lot of fairly unscrupulous companies are taking advantage of getting access to free labour under the ... [Continue Reading]
Reasons to quit (from REWORK)
I just finished reading the book “Rework”, which is a nice little gem of short (1 to 2 page) thoughts and ideas about how to conduct business (geared more to small business and owner/operated businesses than the Fortune 500 type). One of the ... [Continue Reading]
Company policy as “scar tissue” (from REWORK)
I just finished digesting Fried and Hansson's book "Rework", published in 2010. Fried and Hansson are the founders of 37Signals, and their book is a nice little gem of short (1 to 2 page) thoughts and ideas about how to conduct business (more geared ... [Continue Reading]
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