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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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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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