The truth of the matter is that writing Making Remarkable: How to Deliver Purpose, Inspire People and Build a Platform for Exceptional Results wasn’t my idea. My wife Luiza felt that what we had done at the Calgary Chamber was worthy of putting down on paper. I wasn’t so sure. Who would want to read…
DetailsWhen I took the President and CEO role at the Calgary Chamber in 2010, I didn’t know where to start. I was tasked with turning an aging, outdated, and declining organization around. It was 119 years old and was in need of a dire transformation. But I truly didn’t know where to start. It’s true.…
DetailsOne of the biggest pitfalls of any organization that wants to achieve remarkability is creating a gap between what you say and what you do. Someone I know referred to this as the “say-do gap.” And the reality is that it is far too easy to create a say-do gap when you begin to make…
Details“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Writing to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, Lord Acton penned words that, to this day, seem sadly to be true. What is it about power that tends to corrupt even those who pledge to do good? There are of course exceptions to the rule,…
DetailsLarry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, sent shock waves through the business world a few weeks ago when he issued a letter to CEO’s of companies that he invests in, as well as the CEO’s of the top global companies, that basically said: It’s no longer business as usual, and if you don’t have a bigger…
DetailsI have a question for you: if you could choose one word to describe your leadership and your organization, what would it be? Awesome? Great? Best? Exceptional? What I have found in my twenty years of leadership roles is that when you ask a leader what their ultimate objective is, they may offer a variety…
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