Change
June 22, 2021
Every business has things it does well. We are happy to point to these strengths, describing them as reasons why customers should do business with us. Conversely, we have areas where we are not strong, vulnerabilities that open us up to competition t...
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June 1, 2021
Do you work on enhancing your strengths or weaknesses? The answer, depending on the circumstances, is probably both. If you are fairly good at golf but want to be a pro, then focusing on your strength would be a good thing. On the other hand, if fi...
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May 25, 2021
The recent pandemic has created the perfect conditions to force business owners to take a good hard look at all the variables related to their business’s ongoing success and sustainability. It has, in many cases, identified significant cracks in:
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May 17, 2021
Since the COVID pandemic began it has been difficult to have a conversation about work without the word ‘pivot’ coming up. Every organization has had to adapt, posthaste, to contactless or stay-at-home work. The acronym PPE has become part of our...
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May 4, 2021
The sun is shining as you kayak down the centre of a river, flowing through beautiful countryside. The setting is idyllic until you round a bend and see a fallen tree spanning most of the river. You have a choice:
Keep paddling and hope the kaya...
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April 26, 2021
Succession planning that encompasses the entire organization is smart strategy with the added benefit of being a unifying process for organizational development.
An exciting firm had experienced excellent growth over the previous decade and as a r...
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March 22, 2021
Entrepreneurs must always be prepared to face the cycle of building and rebuilding. In 2008, while I was researching a book, my wife and I travelled around North America in a small RV. In many small Southern towns, it was pretty clear that businesses...
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March 12, 2021
In business, if we are not moving forward, we are going backward: there is no status quo. Change is constant, and only when it is undertaken intentionally and correctly, will it help to secure a better future for the organization and its people.
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March 8, 2021
Regretfully in 2020, words we had rarely used before, “Coronavirus” and “Pandemic” came into common usage. And during that dark period another more common word, “leadership,” filtered into our daily conversation and gained as much, if n...
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March 1, 2021
Team building is a process, not an event. Throwing axes together is fun but building an effective team takes time, effort and venturing into not-so-fun spaces together. The “unfun” is where the team is really built. Teams and individuals need lea...
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