My lovely wife Kendra and I were debriefing another week last night as we always do … Date Night! Every Friday (or as many as we can manage) are for us and us alone. We head home, turn on the music, pull the cork on a bottle of wine and cook a great meal (at … Continue reading What’s to FEAR?
Learnings on Leadership
This week I was asked to speak to the opening session of our leadership development program for 2013. I’m proud that our company has such a program, and I like it even better that that we include a number of elements in the program that are focused on coaching, mentoring and self-awareness. Our people are … Continue reading Learnings on Leadership
Playing To Our Strengths
I’m a huge hockey fan,which means I’ve been starving for some action! Not this week … the World Junior Hockey Championships are on and I’m up early every morning the Canadians play. I love hockey largely because it is a fast paced team sport. But it is also a game of spectacular individual achievements. We … Continue reading Playing To Our Strengths
The Conscious Lifestyle: A Leader Must Look and Listen
I came across the first article in a series from Deepak Chopra. I really like this first one and will follow the rest as they come out. What it teaches me is that to lead, we often have to remove our own pre-conceived ideas from the agenda at the onset, bringing our contributions to bear … Continue reading The Conscious Lifestyle: A Leader Must Look and Listen
Next Year…
Here it comes again. New Year’s Day. Time to make a bunch more resolutions!! Myself, I’ve never been much for resolutions. Each year I make the same one: “this year I resolve not to make any resolutions”. What has led me to this is that the things that we generally resolve to do are things … Continue reading Next Year…
Power to the People
As you’ll see if you read a few of my blog entries I listen to a lot of music. We don’t have a television on the main floor of our house and this is intentional so we will spend more time in meaningful engagement with each other and with various form of art such as … Continue reading Power to the People
Leading Essentially 