In today’s world, holding an unpopular opinion can often feel like walking through a minefield. Whether it’s at a family dinner, a work meeting, or the comment section of social […]
The most important thing in my engineering education was that it taught me to question even those things I thought I knew. I learned that wisdom comes from insightful questions […]
Nobody likes annual performance reviews. Even high performing employees can be demoralized by rigid or arbitrary goals. But what if you could find a way to flip it – turning […]
The question of when the Contrecoeur trial will finally hear from its first witness nearly a year after it began might be answered on Monday — or not. Linda Gyulai, […]
An Interview with Serial Entrepreneur Eli Fathi — Giving to Others as a Successful Business Strategy
The notion of giving to others may seem counterintuitive as a business strategy, especially when you look at media portrayals of success. However, Adam Grant’s international bestseller Give and Take […]
The following article reviews two organizational change methods — Theory of Constraints (TOC), first published in The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in 1984, and compares it with Lean […]
What is Predictive Analysis? Predictive Analytics considers what is yet known about the future of an organization based on what has already taken place and information used to integrate new […]
Ottawa, ON—Today, Allenvision Inc, is pleased to announce its new partnership with BambooHR. The number one HR software for small and medium sized businesses. BambooHR is the leading provider of tools that […]
Many companies have problems in expanding their diversity hiring programs. None use the diversity wheel, developed by the Diversity Leadership Council at Johns Hopkins University. It covers the full breadth […]
Every company needs a strategic reward system for employees. The system needs to address these four areas: compensation, benefits, recognition, and appreciation. The problem with reward systems in most businesses […]
While watching teams select talent at NHL draft from Dallas, Brian Burke commented that despite all scouting and resources the success in the first round in only 52%. He mentioned […]
Today I’m signing two bills that promote women entering and leading the STEM positions — science, technology, engineering, and math. Currently, only one in every four women who get a […]
I do not like normal. Creating new rules for games, tearing things apart to make them work better felt natural when I was growing up. I always challenge conventional thinking. Some view […]
Everyone has natural strengths; over our lifetime we build our unique “talent stack” of knowledge, skills, experience on top of our performance traits. Learning is not just time in schools. […]
Governance processes are defined by the Institute of Internal Auditors definition: Governance processes deal with the procedures utilized by the representatives of the organization’s stakeholders to provide oversight of risk […]
Boardroom breakdowns set the tone in the organization. This disfunction permenates throughout the entity. Boardroom Breakdowns — Collapse of competence This is when executives take on problems beyond their capabilities […]