While I was President and CEO of the Calgary Chamber, I sat through many award dinners for CEO’s that were being recognized for their career leadership and performance. Each of them spoke about different experiences and paths that shaped them into who they are today and bore influence on how they were a leader, there…
DetailsFirst off, I am a huge Ian Bremmer groupie. I think the guy is brilliant. And he has an amazing ability to synthesize so much into such a short, concise and impactful assessment. Bremmer is a political scientist that has created an outstanding consultancy based on giving insight to political and business leaders about what…
DetailsMeasure What Matters by John Doerr (2018) is a timely book about setting targets and goals using an approach called Objectives and Key Results – OKRs. Author John Doerr, currently chair of Kleiner Perkins, a Silicon Valley based private equity firm, worked with Andy Grove at Intel in the 1980’s. Grove, while not the founder…
DetailsOne of the things I have always enjoyed and done as part of all my roles throughout my career is to have a strong sense of what is going on in the world, and to be able to translate that into meaningful insight for my clients, stakeholders, members or partners. I consume a wide variety…
Details“I have a permanent dissatisfaction with the status quo.” When I read that line in the Globe and Mail in 2011 it hit me; that is what I feel too. I have always felt that things could be better. Those words were uttered by Darren Entwistle, the President and CEO of TELUS, one of Canada’s…
DetailsSo who is Making Remarkable for? I’d say there are three key groups that can benefit from it. The first is the new leader. When I took on the role of President and CEO for the first time there was no instruction manual. I had read lots of biographies of people like Richard Branson, Jack…
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