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Three Ways to Reframe Winning

Human beings have a problem with winning. Too often we focus on winning as a zero-sum game and define “winners” highlighting the failings of folks who didn’t win – when we do this we call peoples or teams “losers”. Focusing…

Five Ways this Crisis is an Opportunity for Positive Change

Without a doubt this is one of the most calamitic Canada Days in a hundred years and certainly the most challenging and uncertain in a generation. This crisis – climate change compounded by a global pandemic compounded by a modern…

Seven Ways to Embed Co-operative Principles in Your Organization

Co-operatives are an underutilized model for running an enterprise. October 16-20 is International Co-operatives Week and I work for one of Canada’s pre-eminent co-ops, Vancity Credit Union. I am quite biased in my thinking that the world needs more co-operatives….