Strategic Planning: The Importance of a Desired Future State I was recently wrapping up a "Being Strategic" workshop when an attendee approached me. “I want to implement some of these [...]
Radical Discipline: the Key to Implementing Strategy That great strategist, Winston Churchill, reportedly said “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”, and management consultants Alan Branche [...]
What COVID-19 Taught Us About Leadership When the sun is shining, and the birds are tweeting, leadership matters little. Put any warm body in there and the ship might sail [...]
Getting off the Local lounge chair to sit at the Global dinner table In a recent study, Canada dropped two places in global competitiveness in 2011, trailing behind the United [...]
Organizations in many sectors of society focus on strengthening teamwork. Consider a sports team, a ballet troupe or an orchestra. They tend to invest a great deal of time and [...]
Prime Minister Tony Blair is attributed with having said: “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” I worked with client a [...]
Our economy these days seems to be in free fall – we hear one bad new story after another, and at the end of all those stories are ordinary people, [...]