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Aligning Your Value to the Company’s Strategy
I come from a technical background, so this conversation kind of leapt out at my face and latched on: Business leader: “I can’t believe the nightmare of trying to get funding for my project. Everyone...
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Efficiency versus Effectiveness
Which is more important – being efficient, or being effective? The answer is “it depends”, but which ever you pick being grounded in values and purpose* never hurts. * This company went from zero to...
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What Counts in Leadership
Surprise: passion, credibility, and values still count Filed under: behaviour, engagement, leadership, values, values Tagged: credibility, passion, values
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Bears in Camp: Using Culture to Overcome Fear
I was at a Scout Jamboree in Southern Alberta two summer ago, in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Beautiful country with lots of wildlife. Including bears. Being Scouts we were prepared....
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Why Are You Hiding Your Values?
I was in Rogers on Tuesday (they’re a local cell phone service provider), on the 29th anniversary of my engagement to my bride, trying to get her a phone upgrade. I thought it would be a simple...
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Start With the “Why?”
Dan Pink argues that three surprising things motivate people: mastery, autonomy, and purpose. In business execution, I argue, you need to start with the purpose. That’s what I wrote for this month’s...
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Ten Things I Know To Be True – The Inspiration
I’ve been working on a side project (while starting a company, moving, and re-booting my life). It’ll be a week or two before I start publishing the results, but in the meantime, here’s the TED Talk...
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Who Are You? Brand Values as Drivers of Business Success
Patti (my partner and sweetie) and I are speaking at PARK Fashion’s Emerging Artist and Designer Forum at Olds College Calgary campus this weekend. If you’re there, come say hello! Have you always...
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The Cost of Toxic Workers
Get them out It has much more of an impact than you think. While you’re trying to keep all the plates in your business spinning, they are literally knocking things over behind your back. Want to stop...
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Working on the Business
When you work in the business, don’t forget to work on the business.Filed under: strategy Tagged: goals, purpose, strategy, values
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Clarifying Your So-Called Passion
Three years ago I was going through the end of a 29-year marriage, and it was one of the most horrible experiences of my life (including the month my daughter spent a month in intensive care after...
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Leadership Lessons from the Music Industry
The music industry continues to change. Falling album sales eroded by on-line streaming, questions on how artists get paid and make a living, and technology making it easy for anyone to become a...
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