Winning has been on my mind a lot this week. Possibly because of the Winter Olympics that opened in Beijing this week. My late father was an Olympian (Tokyo 1964 for field hockey) so the Games always remind me of him. It’s also because Canada is a strong medal contender…

There’s a certain irony writing this post on Boxing Day 2021. After all, in organizational culture circles, the topic of corporate values is a perpetual punching bag for many. Honestly, any exercise that consumes as much Executive attention and energy and is so gleefully emblazoned on so many walls and…

I must’ve watched Ridley Scott’s movie “Gladiator” at least 30 times. Besides “Dead Poets Society”, “John Wick” and “Good Will Hunting” there are few movies I go back to with glee every time. That’s a conversation for a separate therapy session though. As I watched it again, some of the…

The 1995 movie release of “Swingers” was a seminal moment for me and my group of Canadian friends. The swagger of Vince Vaughan, the bumbling moves of Jon Favreau, the Las Vegas setting, and the cute smile of Heather Graham, it was all just “so money baby” In one pivotal…

I can’t imagine October 3rd 2021 will be a day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will soon forget. That evening over 8 million people tuned into news program “60 Minutes” to hear former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen accuse the social media giant of “prioritizing profits over…

The Healthcare sector has long been seen as a complex and multi-faceted labyrinth, where innovation and agility regularly battle government regulations and a dizzying market complexity. For those working in the sector, particularly during the pandemic, the need to increase the agility and adaptability of these organizations has never been…

If you’re an Executive or business leader, consider these numbers for a moment… 41 The percentage of people considering leaving their current employer according to Microsoft 31 and 45 According to Korn Ferry, the percent of employees who say they would quit their job without another one lined up, and…

As the son of a proud Scottish mother New Year is more about libations than lists but, in so many ways, 2020 has been a year of the new, the novel, the different and…errr…the unprecedented. So here is a set of New Year’s Resolutions. Not as a list, but in…

One of the most popular, and disconcerting, statistics about Digital Transformations pegs failure at around 70%. That means for the billions of dollars expended globally each year, you have a 1-in-3 chance of delivering most of the critical digital transformation requirements that your Executives, and the teeming hordes of business…