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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 Monsters, Inc. on Disney+, and revisiting this cherished childhood classic as an...
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 graduated from university, returned home, and embarked on a fresh...
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 you have the opposite problem. Maybe you feel out of touch with...
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 "Broken! Do not sit on" message written in Sharpie on a piece...
What Everything Everywhere All at Once Can Teach Us about Strategy
I finally hopped on the bandwagon and watched the Oscar-winning film, Everything Everywhere All at Once. While this film made me think about a lot of things – about mother-daughter relationships, the multiverse, and hot-dog fingers (if you know, you know) – it also...
Why You Should Include a Competitive Analysis In Your Next Strategic Planning Process
A strategic plan tells your organization where you’re going in the next few years. Setting this course is one of the most important things you can do as a leader. But what about considering where your organization stands relative to competitors? Understanding the...
Planning for an Inclusive Future
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become integral to most organizations – but what does success look like for DEI-focused strategic plans? With all that has happened over the past few years, many leaders have made renewed commitments to a more DEI-centred...
Leadership is Lonely
“I want to be the boss.” Beginning at a young age, I used to utter those words constantly. From being in the classroom, to being on sports teams, to being in the workplace, I equated being “the boss”, or the leader, or the team captain, to being the most successful...
All I Want for Christmas is…Inclusion!
I’m writing this on the second night of Hanukah, and the nineteenth day of non-stop Christmas music on my favourite local radio station (spoiler alert: it is not yet Christmas). Don’t get me wrong. I love Christmas music, and Christmas movies, and Christmas lights...
Why Organizational Culture Matters (Part 3)
This blog is the third in our three-part series about organizational culture. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is hopefully tapering off, its impact on the work environment seems to be permanent. Research by McKinsey found that before the pandemic, pretty much all...