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In his notes to prepare for this interview, Kevin Connolly says he has the word ���people��� written everywhere. The President of Dell EMC Canada Commercial believes that building a culture around people and trust leads to...

In a previous��article, I wrote about why ���wow this is a great idea��� can lead to higher failure rates of your innovation efforts. This results in wasted time, money, and effort that could be invested in more valuable...

The phrase ���work smarter, not harder��� has been thrown around so much that it has become a clich��. I mean, who wants to ���work dumb���? Unfortunately, from time to time, many people, including myself, do just that. It���s not...

Imagine this scenario. You���ve done all the right things. You���ve found the fastest, most expedient way to the top. You fought and hustled and strived and leaned in to the idea of success that you were told you���d want,...

Gillian Riley, President & CEO of Tangerine, is on a mission to help strengthen the opportunities and support available to women-led businesses in Canada. While these enterprises represent over $117 billion in economic...

So it's really interesting when we started the journey and we started hearing from leaders about how important compassion was. At first we thought, 'oh no, we can't talk about that because everybody's going to see us as...

I would say the number one piece of advice I would give anyone starting out their career, but women in particular, is to trust the process. There is no short-cut to success; sometimes the road is crooked, sometimes you...

Well, you really have to enjoy it. It is such an honor to serve and being asked to lead.�� The most important thing that I have found is, you really never know what the job really is until you start doing it so it's...

Over the past 30 years, I've watched plenty of friends, colleagues and clients get burned out at work, and I've experienced my own share of it. I've recently come to the conclusion that there are different reasons for...

I exercise every day. I think it���s one of the best time investments I make. Exercise energizes me, and makes me happier with the world. Life often seems more doable after a run than it does before. I find that exercise...

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Life really is too short to be unhappy at work. Yet far too many of us aren���t even close to being content���much less delighted���with our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We can���t remember...

Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate and International bestselling author will headline��The Art of Leadership for Women��conference in Toronto on April 13th. At age 15, while returning home on the school bus, Malala...

This observation came from John W. Gardner - former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson - in his book, On Leadership, published in 1990. Caught in the throes of the Cold War,...

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with companies including GE, MeadWestvaco,...

Morten T. Hansen is a renowned leadership expert and bestselling author, ranked as one of the world���s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and INSEAD...

Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson wants you to consider this simple, yet powerful, idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different--they see a need, an empty...

What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. �� Better morale and higher...

A few years ago we sat in the kick-off meeting of a cross-functional team of senior people, assembled to tackle a big project for their company. The team was in a circle; the men in blue button-down shirts, the women in...

As the business landscape in Canada continues to become increasingly competitive, organizations are looking to better understand productivity and how it impacts their bottom line. As Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, in...