If you want to see your strategic plan drive new growth, you need to weed out the ideas that just don’t belong. Even the great ideas. One of the great challenges facing all leaders is how to determine whether each new idea that comes along should find its way into your overall plan. This tool…
What Successful People Do the LAST Hour of Their Work Day
Fast Company recently posted an article that created a mini online “buzz” because of its practical relevance. The piece was simply titled “What Successful People Do the First Hour of Their Work Day” and outlined 6 activities that can help maximize your day. In response to this outstanding post I believe there are also a…
My Least Favourite Moment at The Global Leadership Summit
What is my least favourite moment at The Global Leadership Summit? It’s the same moment every year. And every year I resolve to do whatever it takes to minimize the likelihood that it will recur. It’s the moment as the Summit ends, when leaders throughout the auditorium, and in auditoriums across Canada, are pumped up,…
How Leaders Stay On Top of Relational Promptings
Here are four leadership questions I want you to wrestle with today, and I want you to be brutally honest with yourself. #1: How many times this week have you bumped into an old acquaintance and said, “Hey, we should get together for coffee…”? #2: How many times this week has a name flashed through…
Why Leaders Focus on “Starting Points”
I’ll never forget the dazed and confused looks on the faces of the members of our team as we stood there looking at the mall map. We were in Toronto putting on a conference, and during an evening break several of us had piled into a van to dash over to a nearby shopping mall…
