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Fast Friday with Winston Churchill (and a tribute to my Dad)
Last Saturday, my father passed away after a short, but vigorous, battle with cancer. My dad was a larger than life guy and, what was comforting for myself, my Mum and brothers after his death, was...
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Screw buy-in… start a grassroots revolution instead
Over the past few weeks I feel like I’ve been having lots of conversations about projects, programs, ideas and initiatives that are being stalled or derailed because of “lack of buy-in”. It got me...
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An Inspiring View from the C-Suite with Wayne Bossert, Royal Bank of Canada
This week, our members had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Wayne Bossert, EVP Sales, RBC Canadian Banking and President & CEO, Royal Mutual Funds Inc., to gain his insights around...
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Rick Perry: Lessons in the darkside of personal branding
Ever since Tom Peters wrote Brand You for Fast Company in 1997, there has been a steady stream of advice on how mission-critical it is for us to build and manage our personal brands. Consultants make...
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Forget Feedback, Try Feed Forward
Even though I know it’s good for me, I still find “constructive” feedback difficult. Like many type-A’s, I’m so highly self-critical that hearing things from other people about what I’m not doing well...
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Channeling Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook: Are you sticking up your hand or...
The Executive Roundtable is an organization for anyone interested in raising their bar on their own personal leadership. It doesn’t matter if your male or female, if you want to ratchet up your...
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Lessons in Career Management from the C-Suite
On December 6, we held our final PowerRoundtable session of 2011 and were fortunate to have Harlequin CEO Donna Hayes, Berkley Payment Solutions CEO Dave Eason and Luvali Convertibles CEO Jacqueline...
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What if Darwin was Wrong? Guest blogger Brenda Marshall
Interesting question…and guess what, apparently he was. “Survival of the fittest” is not pre-wired into our genes. According to several key researchers in Tom Shadyac’s movie I AM, it’s actually the...
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Zombie Boy deals lesson in perspective shifting
Have you seen Rick “Zombie boy” Genest? He’s a 26 year old guy that has tattooed himself to look like a, you guessed it, a rotting corpse. In probably one of the most effective product demo campaigns...
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RIM’s leadership woes: 5 lessons on how to go from hero to zero
After rocketing the Blackberry to success in the mid 2000’s, RIM Co-CEO’s Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down this week and were replaced by new CEO (and former RIM COO) Thorsten Heins....
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