Teams are great. And they also suck. Like most of us, you probably plan, work, solve problems, make decisions, and review progress in some sort of formal or informal team. When it is firing on all cylinders, nothing is better. But when the engine is misfiring, things grind to a [...]
Work occupies a significant portion of our lives. So, if you're not feeling fulfilled at work, life can feel pretty empty. Fortunately, there’s one guy who figured out how to enjoy work and shared it with the rest of us. He’s the Hungarian American psychologist with the not-so easy to [...]
If you’ve ever wondered what an Economist actually does (and hey, who hasn’t) then you absolutely need to F-ing listen to Todd Hirsch, author, VP/Chief Economist at ATB Financial and host of The Future Of … podcast
I learned the hard way that this approach to your strategy is the only route to effective leadership and profitability. Follow these five lessons, so you won’t make the same mistakes I did. Generals don’t win battles. No matter how peaceful your business is, your leadership style can grow [...]
Steve Jobs famously said, “we’re here to make a dent in the universe.” Your team needs to know why they should show up for work. I absolutely hate it when I’m asked ‘Why’? I feel my coach is like a 4-year old. “Why are you in this business?” she [...]
In this episode Russell is in conversation with Kevin Kobelka, Executive Director with Hockey Calgary and thankfully neither of them end up in the penalty box!
Ward 3 candidate and brilliant polymath DJ Kelly shares some F***ing Leadership Lessons from City Administration, Community Building and And Baseball. In this episode the guys share a wide ranging discussion all of which boils down to this: "if you don’t like it, pitch better”.
September 17th is the 20th anniversary of the launch of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Sadly due to the pandemic, there's unlikely to be a large party with a cake shaped like a piece of LEGO or a nationwide strategic planning session in which we are prompted to build a model of [...]
There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: “I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.” In this episode the guys consider examples of being part of a tribe in both business and the wider society and talk about the pros and cons of tribalism.
The film Wall Street, with its iconic character Gordon Gekko, coined the phrase greed is good. “Greed is right, greed works,” he claimed. But this runs counter to almost every intuition we have. We assume that employees who prize the collective good are going to be better for our workplace culture. This [...]
