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Lessons from the Trenches: Leading on a Rollercoaster
Merv Hillier, CEO of the Certified Management Accountants of Ontario, Andrea Garson, VP of HR, Workopolis and Jay Woo, COO of the CAA South Central Ontario, joined an enthusiastic group of Executive...
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Fast Friday with Sherry Cooper, EVP and Chief Economist, BMO
This week, I had the pleasure of attending the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards as a guest of dynamo Toronto entrepreneur, Mary Aitken (if you’re not a member of Verity, what on earth are you waiting...
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Fast Friday with Maya Angelou (and Oprah)
Given that Oprah Winfrey has “left” her television show (seems like a lot of hoopla for someone who now has her OWN 24/7 network), I thought it would be appropriate to feature a quote from one of Ms....
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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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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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Busting the Procrastination Myth: Some of us really do work better under...
I’m a grade A procrastinator. At least that’s what I’ve been told by my parents and psych assessment tests my entire life. I was the person in school who wrote my essays the night before they were due...
View ArticleAre you a boiled frog? Why Moritz Erhardt needs to be a red flag for all...
The story goes that if you place a frog in a pot of boiling water it will immediately leap out to safety. If, however, you put the frog in a pot of room temperature water and slowly increase the heat...
View ArticleHow to be Confident When Facing the Unknown
During a major change, a leader said to me, “Tell me what questions to ask so I look like I know what I am doing.” He said this with a smile but his eyes weren’t joking. He was dead serious. Leaders...
View ArticleVideo Blog #3: Know When to Go
Are you feeling like it’s time to go? It might not be. Glain offers advice on how to reconnect with what energizes you. Got a coaching question you want to see answered? Tweet it at Glain:...
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