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Leadership

Leadership & Management

Advisors vs Coaches

Andrew Penny, August 22 2023

Coaches focus on the people (typically CEOs and executives) to help them improve their leadership skills and address specific management challenges. They can improve personal performance through specific interventions in areas such as time management, presentations skills and interpersonal relationships.  By improving people’s skills, they can...

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Leadership & Management

The Power of Purpose

Graham Birkenhead, August 1 2023

A sense of purpose is a crucial element of the well-being of any individual. Similarly, a sense of purpose can be a crucial aspect of any company’s culture and health. We like to think of a company’s purpose as being something much bigger than the company itself, something the company maybe couldn't achieve alone, something that they would...

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Market Strategy

It's Time to Take Time

Andrew Penny, June 27 2023

Roger Greenberg of Minto Group was reflecting on his journey to building one of North America’s leading real estate developers. He acknowledged that the struggle is constant, and the uphill climb can be very hard. His advice to all those climbing similar mountains was to stop from time to time and admire the

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Leadership & Management

Guilt Free Travel

Andrew Penny, May 30 2023

At last, in the Northern Hemisphere at least, summer is here😊 . It’s time to get outside, enjoy the sun on your face, swim in a lake and, for many, plan a vacation. But each year there seems to be an increasing amount of guilt associated with holiday travel. Taking a cruise, traveling by air, or firing up the family wagon are all activities that...

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Leadership & Management

ESG - Questions your Bank will Ask

Andrew Penny, May 2 2023

Last week I participated in the ACG  event – a forum for people who fund the ‘middle market’. Attendees are typically VCs, banks, investment agencies, family offices, private equity – in short anyone who has a few million to give, lend, or invest in mid-sized firms. One of the most interesting sessions was on ESG (environmental, social and...

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Leadership & Management

To Promote or Hire - that is the question!

Graham Birkenhead, April 11 2023

There are good reasons why you should do both, and actually, for a fast-growing company, you should try to do both. There are advantages to each option, but there are also reasons why you should take care. Let’s go back to first principles and consider what we are really trying to achieve. In an earlier blog, I said that people are not your most...

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Leadership & Management

Seven Generations

Andrew Penny, April 4 2023

In Ottawa, as a many other places in the world, public meetings are often prefaced with a short recognition that they taking place on native land. Sometimes these recognitions are quite cursory. At other times, they are quite long and well thought out. I’ll come back to this in a

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Leadership & Management

Is it too late?

Andrew Penny, March 21 2023

Watch the rain:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex4jjxn75os The UN said today that “the chance of evading the most severe impacts of burning fossil fuels is almost out of reach, scientists warn, unless radical changes are made—and immediately.” Wow. What are you doing about it? The phrase Planet, People, Profit has never been more

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Leadership & Management

Business owners, are you IN it? Or ON it?

Graham Birkenhead, March 14 2023

We are working with the owner of a $20M business that manufactures racking systems. Growth has been solid, and they have come out of the pandemic with a solid order book. Sounds good, but the problem is that they are having tremendous difficulty attracting staff, completing orders, and managing inventory in an overcrowded work-space. The owner is...

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Leadership & Management

Ready for the 4-day Week?

Graham Birkenhead, February 28 2023

The UK has recently carried out a trial-based study into the practicalities and impacts of a 4-day week - and the results are just in. The idea of a 4-day week has been around for quite a long time - with much anecdotal evidence suggesting that there could be considerable benefit.   This latest trial involved over 70 companies of all sorts and...

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