by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 17, 2020 | Leadership
Decision-Making for Difficult Times – Leading in a Time Of Crisis How can we ask staff to work from home when our technology is unable to meet the demands? How do we retain employees as our revenue declines? If we need to make cuts to OPEX, where do we start? How do...
by Hugh MacPhie | Feb 7, 2020 | Leadership
Taking Smart Risks and Making the Right Decisions Full disclosure: I do not consider myself to be a risk-taking individual. When I was in Queenstown, New Zealand (widely known as the adventure capital of the world), I chose to visit a maze, rather than skydive,...
by Hugh MacPhie | Aug 26, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Communicating Across Differences in an Organization In today’s business world, people from all walks of life are coming together to make an impact. Teams are required to work together and achieve productivity, regardless of differences in age, race, class, and...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jun 14, 2019 | Leadership
What Leaders can Learn from Kawhi Leonard To paraphrase the great sports writer Cathal Kelly, it’s the personalities and drama that make sports truly interesting – often more than the winning or losing of the games themselves. Without great characters, who are often...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jun 13, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Having the Freedom to Fail Did you ever hear about the time that Google broke the Internet? It was a fine January morning in 2009 and as many folks arrived at work on the Eastern Seaboard, fired up their computers, and navigated to their favourite pre-Superbowl...
by Hugh MacPhie | May 31, 2019 | Culture, Leadership, Strategy
What Really Motivates Your Employees Have you ever been so disengaged at work that you completely neglect your underlying responsibility as a professional? Attracting and hiring top talent, explained by Jim Collins as “getting the right people on the bus” is a...
