Monthly Archives: October 2014
Mastering The Art of Crucial Conversations
Today I am continuing with my impressions of presentations from the 2014 Global Leadership Summit (GLS), which I attended last week. Last week was not the first time I had heard Joseph Grenny speak, in fact I saw him twice in 2013. I have appreciated his approach to communications, especially his work on what he […]
Defining Leadership
Today I am continuing with my impressions of presentations from the 2014 Global Leadership Summit (GLS), which I attended last week. Carly Fiorina was the first woman to become CEO of a Fortune 50 company, Hewlett-Packard. Being first at anything is rarely easy. It seems many of those around, instead of rejoicing with us in […]
Hard Fought Leadership Lessons
For the next few days I will be giving my impressions of presentations from the 2014 Global Leadership Summit (GLS), which I attended last week. Bill Hybels was the opening speaker, with a presentation titled “Hard Fought Leadership Lessons.” Maybe it is me, but when I think of leaders the first people that come to […]
The World Needs Leadership
I have here in the past mentioned, or more accurately lamented, that there seems to be a lack of leaders in our society. There are those we follow due to their celebrity: heroes of Hollywood or stars of the sports world. Shaping and influencing culture does not necessarily make them leaders; they may just be […]
The “Who Cares” Election
I will be voting today. Ontario is holding elections province-wide, as voters in each municipality choose their mayor, councilors and school board trustees. By the time you read this I may have already cast my ballot. I live in Ottawa, the national capital. We do things big here, and people are interested in what goes […]
Peles Castle II – They Wanted A King
But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.” I Samuel 8: 19-20 (NIV) The people of Romania wanted a king, so […]
Peles Castle I – The Pack Rat
The suits of armour were very impressive. As was the entire armoury at Peles Castle, spears and swords and medieval equipment, a room full of everything a good knight needs for jousting or battle. Except why would the King of Romania need all this stuff? (There is also the question of why Romania needed a […]
Terror Strikes Home
I got a text from my son: “Are you on the Hill?” “Yes” I replied. After all, I’m on Parliament hill every Wednesday morning. Another text: “There were shots fired. Any idea what is going on?” Outside I heard the sirens. Sirens are as normal in downtown Ottawa as in any urban setting – fire […]
Under Attack!
I had things I wanted to do on Wednesday and decided not to write a blog post. But what you plan and what happens are frequently not the same. What I expected to be an ordinary work day wound up being extraordinary, with an apparent terrorist attack on the Parliament of Canada that left me […]
The Ad Campaign
When we were choosing travel destinations for our month in Europe this year, deciding where to go was difficult. We had to visit family in Germany. I really wanted to go to Juno Beach, the site of the Second World War Normandy landings. Vivian said she really didn’t care, as long as we went somewhere […]
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