Would Your Business Pass The Passion Test?
Not enough passion in your organization? It’s costing you. Gallup estimated that the 22 million workers who consider themselves either actively disengaged or extremely negative in their workplace costs...
View ArticleSuccess Comes By Doing What You Love
I had a Perfect Moment today. It wasn’t a standing ovation in front of a thousand people. It wasn’t a phone call from a publisher sharing some good news. It wasn’t a Fortune 500 company calling to book...
View ArticleCanadian Values: A Silent Revolution
Is there such a thing as “Canadian values”? According to Professor Emeritus Geerte Hofstede, of Maastricht University, the answer is “yes”. Hofstede’s study measures and compares how values in the...
View Article8 Keys to Becoming A Top Producer
Ever since I was 16, I’ve been directly responsible for my own income based on commission sales and my entrepreneurial endeavors. The limit of what I could earn was directly related to how hard I...
View ArticleTeamwork: Less Me, More We
I love hockey. I mean, I r-e-a-l-l-y love hockey. I love hockey more than snow days, summer, or even Halloween candy! I love hockey so much that I wanted to play after my brother’s funeral because I...
View ArticleJumping On The Social Media Bandwagon
A misunderstanding appears to have arisen among many businesses – that social media is a technology best left to adolescents to update (Facebook), text (smartphones) or tweet (Twitter) their friends...
View ArticleLife Lessons
“Bad days have a scientific value. They are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Frustrated. Irritated. Annoyed. Sometimes I feel this way when I’m in a hurry and I’m...
View ArticleInnate Audacity and Entrepreneurship
Audacity – which the Free Online Dictionary defines as “bold insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention” – is something that many people associate...
View ArticleFeng Shui: A Methodical Approach To Happiness
In less than 200 years, our society has evolved from agricultural, to industrialized, to today’s knowledge-driven civilization. The Internet makes information about anything available to everyone and...
View ArticleFrozen By Fear: The Bystander Effect
Take a second and think about the greatest threats facing the world today. If you watch the news, you probably have some ideas. Pictures of war and environmental devastation overwhelm the television...
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