Business

Flashiness and Slickness

The goal is to solve the problem, not to be sexy or flashy or slick. If solving the problem requires it, then so be it. But if it doesn’t, then don’t make it your priority. What is the problem? What is the most effective and efficient way to solve the problem? What is the problem…

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What You Signal

In Life There are unintentional signs you signal to others.When it is unintentional, you can bet that it’s not to your advantage.For oponents who can read the signals and signs, it’s similar to them reading you like a simple book. A book on how to influence you. For the kind in heart, this makes no…

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On Compliance

To multiply yourself, you need a team that complies. Compliance requires you to establish a system with checks and balances, along with a reporting mechanism. Assess compliance and improve the system based on the evaluated performance. This cycle (create > evaluate > iterate) continues. With each cycle, the goal is to achieve higher compliance. Ultimately,…

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The One-Inch Punch Emails

Short. Concise. Powerful.  Make your email shorter.  This requires you to invest more time in crafting.  Respect your reader.  Get to the point. 

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What are [client] problems?

What are all the problems we’re trying to solve? Each problem, we ask: Is it a problem worth solving? What are each of our big clients’ top three problems? Are those the real problems or just the low-hanging fruit problems? In each case, we ask: is it a problem worth solving? Could there be a more important…

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Leading a New Team

Practices & Philosophies Understand the Team Leading Up Building a United Team Empathetic Leadership Natural Leadership By following these practices, you can effectively lead a new team, gaining their trust and building a cohesive, high-performing unit.

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Pet Peeve: Out-of-Touch Leaders

You know one of my pet peeves? Something that really pisses me off? When people in positions of authority and power become disconnected from the community they serve, they become clueless about the feelings of the ordinary person.  This happens in government. We see it a lot lately in Canadian politics. It also occurs in…

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Business as usual

You’re all good. We’re all good. From your core to the gross warm yellow liquid that gets flushed out. We’re absolutely perfect through and through. Business, however, requires not perfection, but specificity. It’s in these specificities that we sometimes are trapped in, and sometimes need releasing.

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Being your best

Get the best out of you. Would you like to: strive to be your best? The majority of people will never once feel the euphoria of being at one’s best. This is not because of any lack of desire. It is that to be at your best, you require an ideal environment and strong systems….

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Human Capital, wasted

There’s an incredible waste of resources in the world. One of the biggest, is human intellectual capital. Leaders must learn to tap into the explosive power of team. So many people are bored at work. So many people are unengaged. Which leaders are willing to do what it takes to reap the rewards?

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Leaders. Vacancy. pt 2

The reason why there’s a leadership vacuum emptiness is that people DON’T want to be leaders. They don’t want to do what it takes. And they don’t want to fall in love with people. Leadership requires you to fall in love with people. And making the mission (for people) in scope and top of mind….

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Everybody has a story

Everybody has a magical fantastic story. Everybody. No exception. For some, it’s a sad story. For others, a story of triumph. Regardless of theme, everyone has an unbelievable interesting story worth hearing. Organizations are no different. They have a beginning, a middle, an end. And even a resurrection. We fall in love with these stories….

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Only one

There is one mission. No other missions. Raise I+C high enough to reach Escape Velocity. There is one war. Fight against those that intentionally or unintentionally decrease I+C. There is one war. All other conflicts are battles. Some matter. Most do not. Winning can be measured. Individuals. Families. Communities. The world. Strategies not accounting for…

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Leaders. Vacancy

The reason why there’s a leadership vacuum emptiness is that people DON’T want to be leaders. They don’t want to do what it takes. And they don’t want to fall in love with people. Leadership requires you to fall in love with people. And making the mission (for people) in scope and top of mind….

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What’s the state of your washrooms?

I don’t care how beautiful your consumer facing facade is, it’s what’s on the inside that [often] counts. Most brands care a little too much about what their external audience thinks and not enough what their internal teams think. A big stickler for me is washrooms. Way too often they are deliver a horrible experience….

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Trading, for what?

We’re always trading. Trading time, friends, experience, and so on. But for what? How often are our trades making us richer? Not often. North American culture of consumerism, individualism, and atheism is what is being sold. Sold to us in trade for what? In trade for minimalism, essentialism, and wealth? Individualism at the exchange of…

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a necessary element (evil?) in larger organizations, one that must be controlled. If it (bureaucracy) grows in power and size, larger than what is required of it, it can become cancerous. Once too large, it will only want to increase it’s size and power. Too large and too difficult to cut out without…

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What is Red Alert? It means no democracy for you.

First, to appreciate Red Alert behaviours and decision-making processes, one must understand and appreciate what is the Ready Room, and the Observation Lounge, aka Conference Room. Ready Room: A place the Captain does his work, and has private meetings. Longer description below. Observation Lounge: A place the senior staff meet to discuss important business, and…

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Great power

Uncle Ben said, “Peter, with great power comes great responsibility.” True. But you know is truer? With great responsibilities, come great power. Choose to take on more. Choose to be responsible for more. Choose to be a leader, a motivator, a champion of goodness. The greater your responsibilities, the more power the universe will give…

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To say we want diversity is a half truth

We want diversity only if it is profitable. Profitable being defined as something that is good for us. What use is diversity if it negatively impacts ones culture, one’s organism? We call that a virus, which can lead to an eventual mutation of the organism. Diverse thoughts and thoughts that lead to a degradation of…

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