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Dated: 09-17-2014
I have given plenty of speeches on Corporate Culture and Employee Engagement and without fail there are always great questions that follow. The most popular one by far is “can you change a culture without leadership buy-in”? Having gotten the question so many times I have become well prepared at answering it.
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Dated: 09-16-2014
Surveys have shown that 21st century leaders must be creative. Fortune Magazine recently reported that creativity is the most important leadership quality for CEO’s, and a recent survey overwhelmingly showed that unlocking creative potential is key to economic growth.
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Dated: 09-16-2014
Last year, the Aberdeen Group conducted a research study exploring the business impact of building learning capability. Using three key performance criteria to distinguish best-in-class companies, it was found that:
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Dated: 09-19-2014
A chapter taken from the book A Road Taken: My Journey from a CN Station House to the CN Boardroom by David Mclean with Patricia Finn published by Greystone Books
In the middle of his career at CN, my father was elected union leader with the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. For the next fifteen years, he would faithfully travel to St. Louis, Missouri, where the order was headquartered and meetings were held. He and his fellow telegraphers would discuss the issues of the day, the most important of which being how to improve labour relations at CN. It was an orderly business with a clear agenda for the most part, but on November 21, 1950, shortly after ten thirty in the morning, two trains collided at Canoe River, British Columbia. The westbound train was a troop train carrying Canadian soldiers. Most were newly minted privates—young gunners with the 2nd Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery—but some were veterans of World War II. They were all on their way to Fort Lewis, Washington, where they would be transported by military ship to Korea.
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Dated: 09-12-2014
Leadership does not come in a package or a three-ring binder. It does not come from a three-day workshop or a YouTube video. It can be learned, although it is no DIY project. Nonetheless, your small business is not going anywhere if it does not have a leader to follow
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