Time waits for no one.  Treasure every moment you have.  You will treasure

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In an increasingly competitive world, businesses will not survive or grow

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The speaker at this  large aboriginal conference noticed attendees,

Clarence Louie is everything that was advertised and more.   Fortunately,  he is aboriginal himself. If someone else had said these things—for example, the white columnist standing in the back of the hall with his mouth open, they’d be viewed as racist. Instead, Chief Clarence Louie is considered one of the most interesting and innovative native...

On February 4-11, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin came together

for a conference at Yalta to decide the shape and fate of Central and Eastern Europe. In what many call a ‘sell-out’, Roosevelt gave in to Stalin’s insistence that Russia be given de facto control over the countries falling inside what he considered a ‘safety...

Today’s post   is not intended to be partisan although many readers

The mess we are in was not caused by presidents, members of congress, the judiciary, or constitutional tenets.  Rather it is being caused by a combination of; the untoward influence of special interest groups, a disregard for economic reality (most  politicians and a plethora of their advisors have no personal business experience),  dysfunctional...

CEOs do not create an organization’s values.  They do however clarify

Corporate values and their future tense (vision) serve as a powerful catalyst for the generation of corporate energy.  They also provide a platform for delivering on the organization’s brand promise—they align employees.  CEO  signals of cultural values, delivered by consistent words and deed,  will inspire customers, suppliers, and employees...

They hang prominently on lobby walls, get published in annual reports,

and appear on most corporate websites.  When asked to recite their lofty declarations, too many managers have to extract them from desk drawers.   Corporate values…publishing them just seems like the right thing to do so PR firms rake in millions of dollars each year creating...

after you're gone they won't understandMy late wife and I had

always loved the holiday season, but in 2000, our exposure to the hustle & bustle of Christmas was restricted to watching doctors and dedicated nurses save lives. One of her last requests was that I continue telling her story. She wanted to encourage smokers to rise above an...

Handing over or inheriting control of a family business requires planning

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Futurist David Houle suggests that the next two decades will see many

“Companies wanting to lead in the shift age will make a 180 degree shift from a mindset of knowing to an attitude of not knowing—replacing a reliance on knowledge and experience with processes for finding out and taking action faster than the competition.”                                                                                                                                     ...