True leadership allows for the creation of an open forum to debate ideas, concepts and change. When portions of the team are marginalized from the group, the team and organizations...
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Published with permission granted by Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm, 2014. To view the original publication, please visit http://www.macleodlawfirm.ca/. The end of the year is nigh… And Ontario looks a...
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The motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is “Serve to Lead,” a phrase that reinforces the notion that service provides the legitimacy to lead, and thus the corollary that...
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A few months ago, I was asked to speak at a corporate event involving the announcement of some major changes both to the organization’s structure and employees’ roles and responsibilities....
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“We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job....
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The military is known for producing good leaders. This series features leadership wisdom from former Canadian military leaders now in private enterprise. In each article, a military Leadership Trait will...
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In “Good to Great”, Jim Collins puts an interesting spin on the old adage “It’s not WHAT you know but WHO you know” with his line “The most important decisions...
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“Fail Fast” is a (relatively) new trend currently in vogue in business. Wikipedia defines it as “a property of a system or module with respect to its response to failures....
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In their article, “What you see may not be what you get: relationships among self-presentation tactics and ratings of interview and job performance” (2009) the authors confirmed that self-presentation tactics...
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The military is known for producing good leaders. This series features leadership wisdom from former Canadian military leaders now in private enterprise. In each article, a military Leadership Trait will...
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