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    How I Bounced Back From Losing $4,500,000
    Colin Christensen

    How I Bounced Back From Losing $4,500,000

    It is never fun to lose money The only thing worse than losing all your money is losing all of other people's money. TL;DR Sometimes...
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    The Pivot
    Colin Christensen

    The Pivot

    Several years ago, after years of entrepreneurship, I had to decide between a business I wanted to build into a franchise and a franchise...
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    Low Resolution vs. High Resolution
    Colin Christensen

    Low Resolution vs. High Resolution

    I have really been enjoying listening to videos and podcasts lately by Jordan B Peterson. He is in the limelight right now for risking...
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    Are Degrees Dead?
    Colin Christensen

    Are Degrees Dead?

    After almost a decade recruiting in the IT industry, I can say I always look for competency over a relevant degree: Have they done the...
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    What Employees Want
    Colin Christensen

    What Employees Want

    It's not about the money When I speak with clients about how to improve employee retention or attract better candidates to their roles,...
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    Balancing the 7Fs of Life
    Colin Christensen

    Balancing the 7Fs of Life

    There is always talk on priorities. The truth is, as any one of us, there are at least 7 areas we need to prioritize. Zig Ziglar has the...
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    Vision, Mission, Values and Goals
    Colin Christensen

    Vision, Mission, Values and Goals

    There are many definitions of Vision, Mission, Values and Goals. Here is an analogy we use on how they all fit together. I'm not a huge...
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    Engagement or Implosion: Which Worker Path Are You On?
    Colin Christensen

    Engagement or Implosion: Which Worker Path Are You On?

    For single people with commitment issues, there’s no scarier word than “engagement”. But for managers and business owners with an eye on...
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    The Buckets Exercise
    Colin Christensen

    The Buckets Exercise

    A couple of years ago, I read a book called "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and...
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    A Paycheque is Not A Retention Strategy
    Colin Christensen

    A Paycheque is Not A Retention Strategy

    Have you ever heard someone say "I pay them, shouldn't that be enough?!" This is still the mentality of some, if you can believe it. Mind...
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    Healthy Organizations are Better
    Colin Christensen

    Healthy Organizations are Better

    “I'm not lookin' for the best players... I'm lookin' for the right players." -- Herb Brooks, the coach of the 1980 US Men's Olympic Gold...
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    Hiring for Trades
    Colin Christensen

    Hiring for Trades

    Of all the challenges the economy in Alberta brings, finding electricians, pipetrades, welders, carpenters, heavy equipment techs, rig...
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    Top 10 Must Read Books
    Colin Christensen

    Top 10 Must Read Books

    There are no shortage of great books to read. Typically I used to read between 1-2 a month now I crank out several a month...
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    Reach the Candidates you want
    Colin Christensen

    Reach the Candidates you want

    I had a conversation the other day with a client. He asked me about a company who had reached out to him to sell him the latest version...
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    Turning Traditional Hiring on its head
    Colin Christensen

    Turning Traditional Hiring on its head

    A little while ago I coauthored an ebook, "The Golden Egg of Strategic Recruitment". It is a call to the world that the hiring landscape...
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    Culture eats Sandy for Breakfast
    Colin Christensen

    Culture eats Sandy for Breakfast

    The title is a play on one of my favourite quotes, "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast", often attributed to Peter Drucker Hurricane...
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    What Gasoline Teaches us about the cost of a bad hire
    Colin Christensen

    What Gasoline Teaches us about the cost of a bad hire

    A funny thing happened to me today. I can be pretty handy at times - something my wife loves about me. Today I exercised a little of that...
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