by Hugh MacPhie | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Harnessing my Opportunity for Growth Srusti Pandya, past Associate Consultant recently has been promoted to the next level within our firm. We asked her a few questions on how she harnessed her opportunity for growth at MacPhie: What was your biggest learning? My...
by Hugh MacPhie | Apr 14, 2019 | Leadership
Don’t Forget Your Skates – Leadership Lessons from NHL Captains Spring is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: the NHL Playoffs are around the corner! With nostalgic commercials airing more frequently, playoff beards growing in, and fans starting to wear their...
by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 26, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Lessons for Feedback from a Galaxy Far, Far Away… Imagine you are Admiral Ozzel in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. You’ve had a productive career doing the Empire’s evil bidding—maybe you’re close to your pension and have a cache of Imperial credits...
by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 13, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Making Time for Space and Reflection Earlier this year Business Insider posted quite the attention-grabbing headline with its article: Burned-out billionaires are taking extended multimillion-dollar ‘sabbaticals’ to recharge, from world tours on private jets to skiing...
by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 11, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
The Importance of Remembering Faces and Names A friend recently told me a story that reminded me of a quote from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People: “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” My...
by Hugh MacPhie | Feb 14, 2019 | Leadership, Strategy
The Power of Purpose At MacPhie, we love to facilitate conversations on what’s new and interesting in the industry. One of the ways we do this is Podcast Club, which involves taking a deep dive on learnings from a podcast and how they may be applied to our context....