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Why Your Best Productivity Hacks Still Come Up Short

Article

I confess: Iâm a sucker for life hacks. Who doesnât fantasize about getting work done faster and getting more out of life, especially when, after rushing around all day, youâve barely made a dent in your to-do list,...

Drop the Ball - Tiffany Dufu

Book

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. ...

The Sleep Revolution: Transforming your Life, One Night at a Time - Arianna Huffington

Book

We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, with profound consequences to our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What we need is nothing short of a sleep revolution: only by...

Tiffany Dufu

Speaker

Tiffany Dufu is a catalyst-at-large in the world of womenâs leadership and the author of Drop the Ball, a memoir and manifesto that shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the...

Malala Yousafzai coming to Toronto on April 13th

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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...

The Leadership Rethink

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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

Speaker

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 Hansen

Speaker

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

Disrupt Yourself - Whitney Johnson

Book

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...

Build an A-Team - Whitney Johnson

Book

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...

Life is Too Short to be Unhappy at Work

Article

Life really is too short to be unhappy at work. Yet far too many of us arenât even close to being contentâmuch less delightedâwith our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We canât remember...

What's Next for Vice President Joe Biden

Article

Delawareâs favorite son likes to say, âœMy dad used to have an expression. He said â˜itâs a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what heâs about to do and thinks it still matters.â...

Connie Dieken

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How to Handle Conflict in Your Team

Article

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...

Malala's Magic Pencil - Malala Yousafzai

Book

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. "This is a wonderful read for younger students that will also provide...

How Forward Thinking Leaders make Productivity Metrics Work

Article

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...

This I Know: If They Feel, They Believe

Article

When you create a message with emotional content, it attracts people. Leadership consultant Edwin H. Friedman puts an even finer point on it, saying, âœPeople can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they...

Conference Summary - The Art of Leadership for Women - Toronto 2018

Event Review

On Friday, April 13th , 2018, 2,500 leaders from across Canada gathered in Toronto to be a part of The Art of Leadership for Women. This year's lineup included The Hon. Rona Ambrose, Tammy Heermann, Dr. Annie McKee,...

Top 4 Lessons from Neil Pasricha: The Art of Leadership

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1. Be Happy First Neil Pasricha shared three secrets to finding happiness and success. The first secret is that often we are told that if we do great work, it will lead to big success, and then we will be happy....

Top 4 Lessons from Susan David : The Art of Leadership for Women

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1. Emotional In-agility Our thoughts, emotions and expectations of what we want from ourselves and others, ends up not being met by the environment we are in, so we conflate our stimulus response by shutting down and...