On Compensation, Keeping Great People, and Old World Wisdom

I’m one of those lucky people who has a remarkable mentor. At the end of every single lunch when we get together, I feel buoyed (we always laugh – a lot!), inspired, and that (as quickly as the world changes), there are just some basic fundamentals that never really vary. Bill tells the story of his first CFO position for a highly successful (then private) company. On reviewing the comp..
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Just “Follow Up” Already!

Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine from University that had the opportunity to work for a digital marketing firm in Vancouver. Always a marketing major he poked fun at my apparent inability to understand the gravity of search function optimization and the potential implication of click-through rates driving sales to a company. It was that question really got me thinking about some of ou..
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GETTING THE GENERATION GAP

The Young Guns (me, my sisters and cousins) took on the Stormin’ Normans (Grandpa and the other +45s) in a family board game this Christmas. While bantering over points, the differences in the generations became apparent. Us Young Guns were trying to gain advantage and argue for our points in a different way than the Stormin’ Normans, which led an uncle to make a comment about the “youngster..
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Strategy Execution – The gift of Business Process

As facilitator of strategy development and execution for almost 20 years, I am reminded of the importance of business processes in the effective execution of business strategy in every single client engagement. There is some logic to my thinking that I provide in this article – a gift to all followers for this Holiday Season! Michael Porter’s classic Harvard Business Review article from 1..
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Own It! – Being an Up and Coming Female Executive

Not long ago a past colleague mailed me (yes, through real snail mail) a newspaper clipping with a yellow Post-It that read “This reminded me of you!”. The Globe & Mail article “Women, power and the imposter syndrome”, written by Margaret Wente, was a quick and insightful statement about women in the workplace, and our innate ability to underestimate and sabotage ourselves. Most impo..
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Just “Follow Up” Already!

Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine from University that had the opportunity to work for a digital marketing firm in Vancouver. Always a marketing major he poked fun at my apparent inability.. readmore »

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The Young Guns (me, my sisters and cousins) took on the Stormin’ Normans (Grandpa and the other +45s) in a family board game this Christmas. While bantering over points, the differences in the gener.. readmore »

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