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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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
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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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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Improve Your Business Experience
This is one of the tag lines for our business and - I'd argue - descriptive of what you are trying to do right now. We all get into...
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Making Leadership Suck Less
Once a business or a team starts on a negative spiral, it can be difficult to turn the momentum around. I'm here to encourage you: It can...
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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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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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