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Month: June 2016

Three Reasons Why You Should Take Vacation Right Now

My wife just forwarded me an email from her organization’s Human Resources department that reads, “Don’t forget to take your vacation!” You’d think that things like this don’t require reminders, but Canadians aren’t great at having or taking vacation days….

Five Ways that Cycling to Work Enhances Wellbeing

The June 2016 issue of BC Business is chock full of statistics and stories about commuting – Frances Bula argues that big investments in transit, bike lanes and even non-driving Millennials aren’t doing much to de-throne the car as commuters’…

Five professional lessons from Pulp Fiction

  Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is an American neo-noir film chock full of crime, drugs, twisting, and jiving. It’s hip, happening and, while it dates back to 1994, there are plenty of professional lessons scattered between Vincent Vega’s (freaky) stabbing of Mia…

Three Negotiation Tactics I Learned from Toddlers

My son is two years old and he is fast becoming a competent negotiator. Well, not really. But he does try really hard, his logic is pretty funny, and kids are adorable and we can learn a lot from them….