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Leadership and the Power of Social Media
I must admit that when it comes to using social media, I have been pretty much of a luddite. I have LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter accounts but I neither knew how to use them very well nor spent very much time using them. However a recent experience has changed my perspective. Let me explain. Halifax will host the Canada Winter …Continue Reading
Temple Grandin
For the past year, my work has focused on how Master Leaders set Tipping Point Goals. Tipping Point Goals utilize the power of the positive domino effect and help us achieve more than we ever thought possible. Tipping Point Goals occur where: Courage Creativity Innovation Collaboration Perseverance Determination, and Hard Work meet. There …Continue Reading
Your First 90 Days
The First 90 Days are as important to any person who has started a new job or has been promoted into a new job, as they are to a new President or Prime Minister. Fortunately, there is an amazing book that has been written exactly for this purpose. The name of the book is The First 90 Days by Michael …Continue Reading
The Ultimate Question ─ Part II
In my last blog, we looked at The Ultimate Question as it related to customers. Equally, if not more importantly is how The Ultimate Question relates to an organization’s employees. To fully understand this blog, you will need to go back and read last week’s blog first because that is where the Net Promoter Index (NPI) is explained. In that …Continue Reading
Atlantic Business Magazine welcomes Peter Grandich
Peter Grandich has signed on Atlantic Business Magazine’s newest columnist and blogger. Who is Peter Grandich? Though he never finished high school, Peter Grandich entered Wall Street in the mid-1980s with no formal education or training and within three years was appointed Vice President of Investment Strategy for a leading New York Stock Exchange member firm. Now an internationally-acclaimed financial …Continue Reading
The Ultimate Question ─ Part I
I am currently sitting in a bed and breakfast in Edinburgh. The internet has not worked 90% of the time. They keep telling me that the internet is working for everyone else. Well it didn’t work for my son either and it didn’t work elsewhere in the building. They did tell me it worked for someone at breakfast. I was …Continue Reading
Hothouses and Pipelines: Insights from Made in Canada Leadership co-author Francoise Morissette
B.M. In your book Made in Canada Leadership, you said, we require a national leadership strategy to make leadership a priority. The strategy should include leadership education for all ages, coaching, mentoring, stretch assignments and the creation of a National Leadership Institute to oversee the implementation of a national leadership strategy. Can you give me some more detail behind your …Continue Reading
If You Want To Take Your Business To The Next Level, Stop Advertising and Start Doing This.
Simplicity brings clarity.
I believe this is why many of the answers we seek tend to evade us. We often over-think and make things much more complex than need be. Too much complexity ‘muddies the water’ and deprives us from seeing things as they truly are.
Eliminating complexity and embracing simplicity in everything your business does is THE toughest unspoken challenge you really face as a business owner.
Canada’s Next Governor General ─ the Honourable David Johnson on the future of higher education
As the current president of the University of Waterloo, David Johnson has a strong vision for the future of higher education and the necessity to fully fund and benchmark Canada as a leader in research and innovation as the following excerpt from my book The Seven Strategies of Master Leaders: Featuring Key Insights from 32 of Canada’s Top Leaders demonstrates. …Continue Reading
Atlantic Business Magazine wins GOLD in international competition
Editor Dawn Chafe and Contributing Editor Alec Bruce have each won Gold in the 2010 Tabbie international business press awards.