It's About Leadership

It's that time of year again when many of us make New Year's resolutions.  The turning of the page at the stroke of midnight on Dece...

I just recently read an article that suggested that the annual Christmas party was the one last best opportunity in the year to boost or sal...

Several weeks ago I was a guest at a retirement function of a long-standing leader of a prominent local organization.  Not surprisingly, the...

This past week was one of those weeks where a number of unrelated events came together to build a theme in my mind about leadership.  I'...

A lament that I've often heard from many leaders is "Why don't my staff get what we are trying to do?"  The context for th...

The title of this blog entry comes from an image my wife and I had an artist create for our daughter's room a few years ago.  This Latin...

What does it take to move up the ladder of leadership?  That has been a frequent point of focus from a number of my coaching clients.  The q...

One of the first blog entries I penned over a year ago focused on the work of Dr. W. E. Deming - one of the key figures in the foundation of...

Over the past couple of months in my executive coaching practice a few of my clients have expressed a desire to be more charismatic.  They s...

The public sector in Alberta is again facing significant financial challenges.  The result of which is that we are seeing some agonizing cha...