by Hugh MacPhie | Jan 2, 2019 | Strategy
New Year, New Habit Do you notice how crowded the gym is in January? This may be because people are returning from holidays, or couldn’t resist themselves at family feasts, or – what is most likely – following through on their New Year’s resolutions. The New Year...
by Hugh MacPhie | Dec 19, 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Strategy
Leadership Lessons from Santa Claus For centuries, Santa Claus has been the leader of one of the largest not-for-profit operations in the world. Despite the constant societal, economic and technological changes that he has experienced since the 4th Century, he has...
by admin | Nov 28, 2018 | Marketing, Strategy
Living ‘Me to We’ It’s not yet 6am as I join the mob of neon-clad, self-proclaimed “Shameless Idealists” gathering at the Air Canada Centre for this year’s ‘We Day’ event. It’s a moving scene as teens from across the country reunite in warm embrace, reminiscing...
by admin | Nov 27, 2018 | Marketing, Strategy
Know Your Tribe I have to admit, it was a pretty cool idea for a birthday present for my wife Michelle.She was turning thirty, and I had heard somewhere that Duran Duran was on tour. When Michelle was a teenager, she had been a huge Duran Duran fan, in the way that...
by admin | Nov 27, 2018 | Leadership, Strategy
An Important Phase of Change Management No One Told Us About It came as a bit of a shock. I was part of a team working on a new packaging concept called ‘minimal bottle’. The idea was to develop a solution that would reduce packaging across a range of laundry and...