Four Reasons Volunteering Builds Career Success
In a world where many of us are already struggling to maintain some semblance of work/school-life balance, it is certainly challenging to spend your spare time working for free. While many people pursue volunteer opportunities purely for altruistic reasons, volunteering…
Eight Ways to Practice Pragmatic Consensus-Based Decision Making
Whether you’re discussing the foundations of governance or how to take our an enemy sniper in Call of Duty, you’re probably talking about consensus-based decision making, which informs everything from family trips to important business decisions. Consensus-based decision making has been widely used, in everything from early democracy to organizational theory. But what exactly is consensus-based decision making, and how best can it be practiced?
How Outcome Based Decision Making Can Get You Through a Crisis
One of the unfortunate facts of life is that, more often than not, we’re forced to make some of our most important decisions under pressure. Whether that pressure comes from time constraints, high emotion or some kind of crisis, it’s just not a good time to successfully arrive at good decisions. But whether you like it or not, there’s a good chance that at some point in either your personal or professional life, you will be confronted with tough choices under less than ideal circumstances.
Professional hockey and collective ownership
With the actual crisis and the realization that having hockey teams in the American South might not be a great business model after all, Quebec City has started dreaming about a possible return of its beloved Nordiques. In this context,…
The Engaging Workplace
Believe it or not, people, most Canadians spends more time at (or on the way to/from) work than at home with family. It’s not just the actual 35 or 37.5 or 40 or 70 hours at work with colleagues to…