Fuel for Thought
Insights, Perspectives, and Thought Leadership
Fuel for Thought
Insights, Perspectives, and Thought Leadership
Can You Handle the Truth about Your Workplace Culture?
How would you describe the culture of your organization? How would one of your front-liners describe it? Chances are the portrayal will be different. It may be mildly dissimilar or miles apart. And there isn’t a right or wrong answer. It’s not that one is the truth and the other is a lie. The views…
3 Fun Company Culture Ideas for World Values Day
Have you embarked on a journey to shift your culture only to find that it’s run out of steam? October 18, 2018 is World Values Day–an opportunity to reflect on our personal values! A time to take note about how well our current situation is aligned with the things that are most important to us!! However,…
How Adobe and Cathay Pacific Customers are Driving Organizational Culture Change
Organizations have been focused on the customer for hundreds of years. So not surprisingly, we have developed a lot of data, processes, and functions to help us manage this key area of our business. More recently, a trend is developing where leaders are transporting their customer service skills to the employee arena. At your next…
Who Moved Our Future and Where Has It Gone?
In this era of disruption, volatility and an increasing shortage of talent, the future is becoming more and more challenging to predict. Trying to discern where your organization will be in 10 years is complex and at times overwhelming. It’s easy to get stuck. Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change…
How this CEO Plans to Turn Around a Floundering, Iconic, Canadian Organization
What will the first permanent female leader of an organization facing harassment suits, claims of negligence, and desperately in need of modernization tackle first? This was the question I had when I went to hear a presentation by recently appointed RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. In her insightful remarks she talked about leadership, courage and culture….
Capitalism, Power and Biographies or Mystery, Romance and Comedy?
When I was growing up I spent my summers either at the cottage or at camp. It was a time before internet and wireless technologies. It was the time that I discovered my love of reading. I was a voracious reader. I often perused the latest novel with a flashlight under the blankets. I naively…
Stop trying to get the right people on the bus, get the right bus first!
“Leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.” Jim Collins, author of Good to Great – Why some companies make the leap and…
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