by Hugh MacPhie | Nov 2, 2023 | Culture, Leadership
What Romance Novels Can Teach Us About Workplace Culture During the pandemic, I rediscovered my teenage obsession with romance novels. I have a PhD in English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century love stories, but that was high-brow romance. What I was...
by Hugh MacPhie | Aug 31, 2023 | Culture
What Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. Can Teach Us about Culture, Performance, and Innovation Wait! If you’re looking at this meme and squinting your eyes and tilting your head to the left, or sliding your cursor towards the back button, let me explain. I recently came across...
by Hugh MacPhie | Aug 16, 2023 | Culture
Navigating the Transition: How to Foster a Welcoming Work Culture Change. What does this word mean to you? Is change a good or bad thing? There inevitably arrives a time in every individual’s career when they must confront change. For me, this happened recently. I...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jul 31, 2023 | Leadership
Build Capacity and Lead Your Team: How to Delegate Effectively Have you ever led a team where it felt like you were doing all the work? Like you couldn’t focus on the bigger picture because you were always fighting fires and solving problems for your team? Or, maybe...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jun 10, 2023 | Culture
Get the Little Things off Your “To Do” List So a wheel broke off one of our office chairs – rendering the chair an occupational health and safety hazard. The result being that a perfectly good chair was taking up valuable space in our closet, with a...