by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 20, 2024 | Leadership
Managing ‘The People in Your Neighbourhood’ Around the Board Table Like learning the Hungarian language or calming down an angry two-year-old, chairing or facilitating a Board meeting is hard. All groups have moods that are always changing, which directly impacts...
by Hugh MacPhie | Dec 11, 2023 | Leadership
Ten Things Successful Leaders Do Well Being a leader – of three people, a production shift, or a 10,000-person organization – is really hard. We work with leaders at all levels of organizations, and we have seen patterns and traits from the ones who are...
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...