What a Woodpecker Taught Me About Rethinking Work Life
Recently, I learned a lot about what it means to think again. First, I read Adam Grant’s latest book, Think Again, and it presented compelling arguments for thinking like a scientist. Second, I engaged in a fiasco of problem solving with my neighbours that, in my...
Three Ways to Lead with Love
Valentines Day is coming up and you will probably have a few conversations about love in the days ahead. I think that we need to be having more conversations about love at work because there are profound benefits when it comes to shaping work into roles so that people...
Innovation
Innovation creates value for communities by generating and executing new ideas quickly and effectively. I think that novelty should be an outcome of innovation – what’s produced and the process for getting there – and what is created should break with conventional...
99 Ways to Leverage our Humanity – Part 4
[Editor's note: And so concludeth the experiment. This has been an incredibly inspiring community-driven team effort - thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! The world's Occupy Movements might be dwindling, resting or might just be unreported. Many...
Exhibition Unites Energy with Art and Motion
VANCOUVER: eatART presents an exhibition illuminating the connection between art and energy through photography, paintings, performances and art-in-motion at the Great Northern Way Campus on December 15th.
Community Decision Making
Last night I had a beer and a chat with a man who is is wise beyond his years. He shared with me some great ideas about decision making in organizational environments, such as charities, social enterprises, businesses, the government, the non-government, and...
99 Ways to Leverage our Humanity – Part 2
[Editor's note: I must start by saying that what unfolds below is a team effort - thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! So, for better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied - and in some places, like Vancouver, this may or may...
99 Ways to Leverage Our Humanity
For better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied - and in some places, like Vancouver, these occupations may be coming to an end. Many elements of the Occupy Movement have issued demands. Personally, I see many problems with demands, as they...
The Case for Wal-Mart
The mega-company is called Walmart and its - or his/her, because corporations are people - motto is Save Money. Live Better. I will venture a guess that - ahem - about 99% of this blog's readers do not believe that Wal-Mart, the world's biggest private employer and...
Tailgating – Like a Boss
It was about an hour before game day. The Washington Huskies were taking on the Arizona Wildcats and it was do or die time for the Huskies after being crushed last week by Stanford. At least that's the story according to the local university newspaper, which had...
End of the Blackberry World? I hope not.
Photo courtesy of Fred Lum with the Globe and Mail. Several years ago I got a Blackberry as a gift from a friend. I've been hooked ever since. I like the streamlined push email notification. I like the rugged business simplicity of it all. I the way it looks and the...
Steve Nash’s Energy Efficient Community
During the month of October, youth in BC have an opportunity to Save Like Steve. Once again, my main man Steve Nash shows what it takes to build community. As discussed many, many, many times by the contributors to this blog, Steve Nash is the greatest. His resume...
Communicating to Community
Last week my friend sent me a few emails to see if I’d updated my iPhone 4 to the new iOS 5 so that we could use iMessenger from his iPad. He texted me later to see if I’d updated yet. And then finally when all apps and updates were downloaded and installed I got...