How to build trust in a professional relationship through effective communication. Early in my professional (post-university) career, I was attending...
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According to a recent survey, the most significant retirement fears (by a sizeable margin) relate to being able to cover...
The importance of vision and strategy from the point of view of a former US Naval officer. Long before strategic execution became one of the top concerns of business leaders and even before a genuine and bloody Global War on Terrorism began, a senior U.S. military leader and theorist defined...
I had an epiphany of sorts at 6:00 am one morning this week, which is the focus of today’s philosophical...
Things that were once important, due to the change in our life status, may now become less so. Other things,...
Six essential lessons learned from people who work from home. There is a consistent increase in the number of home-based workers who choose either to telecommute several days a week or have opted to accept jobs where they can work remotely. Also, there is a steady growth in home-based businesses...
Only 44% of Americans take vacations in a given year. What’s wrong with the other 56%? Today’s post from The...
I think, perhaps, that I am not normal. I read a fascinating (and, depressing) study by UBS recently, titled “When...
Serendipity – others call it luck or Divine Intervention – means a “fortunate happenstance” or “pleasant surprise”. It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter, he wrote to a friend explaining an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of...
People say that leaders come in all shapes and sizes but, in practice, how often do they look beyond the...
Five lessons on having a happy attitude, directly from retired people with over 90 years of experience, in this journey...
Effective strategy execution in three proven steps. Having a strategy to grow your business is one thing. Ensuring it gets executed is another thing altogether. I read with interest ‘Why good strategies fail, Lessons for the C-suite’, a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. You can download the report here. The...
“Downsizing” is often cited as a retirement strategy to both cut expenses and access the equity in a current “pre-retirement”...
“No one can fool me!” could be something you say, honoured of being so savy. This should pop your bubble: If...
Carpe diem: a Latin aphorism usually translated to “seize the day”. 4 pm, and storm clouds were looming on the horizon as I loaded the kayak into my pickup truck for the drive to the lake. It was the last day of my “bachelor weekend“, and I very much wanted...
The ultimate guide on building and leading mindful teams and organizations. It has been 26 years since the publication of...
The ultimate guide on why flexible and adaptive leadership is essential. When we embark on a career, we usually do...
Statistics show that only 11% of start-up businesses have female founders or CEOs. Out of that 11%, only 0.1% manage a global business. Though it is popularly acknowledged that persons of any gender can do most jobs, I’m hard-pressed to think of any career that explicitly requires a specific gender unless it...
Just like signposts help us navigate our journey down the highway, there are certain tell-tale signs that indicate where we...
5 Steps to Building a Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence in Business and Life … 1. You set a goal, become motivated and...
