This is the question I was left with after attending the leadership symposium yesterday in Calgary with Marshall Goldsmith, the world’s authority on leadership. Marshall left me with a number of powerful yet straightforward thoughts that if applied consistently – should help to improve my leadership capability.  1.  Quality X Commitment = Probability of Success How [...]

Strategy and the Giant Squid  Recently I was watching a documentary on nature that featured the Giant Squid, and I came to two conclusions:  1) The giant squid is an unbelievable marvel of evolution; and,  2) There are uncanny parallels between evolution in nature and the development and execution of business strategy. Business people have [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]