Most of us wear underwear. We don’t think too much about it. Then, every once in a while, you decide to try something new. For several weeks, I had been seeing ads for Manmade underwear. Think of it as something like a bra for men—but, you know, ‘down there’.
Read MoreFor me, Tuktoyaktuk was one of those strange place names that sounds sort of familiar but I couldn’t place on a map. That changed recently. Let me back up a bit. Every year I try to do something that I really don’t know if I can do. One year I took singing lessons and performed in a recital (OK, it was me and three judgmental 10 year olds – but...
Read MoreCanada’s progress has been imperfect, uneven, and often slow — but slow steady progress compounded over 159 years becomes something wonderful. Canada’s quiet brilliance is not that it is perfect. It is that it has built a durable brand around trust, stability, resilience, humility, and usefulness. For a small country of just 41 million, and...
Read MoreI stopped into a local bagel shop recently for a coffee and breakfast bagel after my morning swim. I’d been there a few months earlier and hadn’t had a great experience, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Everyone has an off day. Surely they’d have sorted things out by
Read MoreAs a boy in Montréal, I delivered newspapers door-to-door (neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night, etc…) It was seen as an essential service to keep the population informed and actively participating in our democracy. Getting real ’news’ is a bit harder now but no less essential – particularly for business leaders. To be effective, we need...
Read MoreApparently, human intelligence has already been eclipsed by AI. And not just by a little. One comparison I heard recently was this: we are to hamsters what AI will soon be to us. Now, I tend to think I’m at least a few notches above a hamster. Most days anyway. But it does raise an interesting question. What will AI make of
Read MoreRecently my wife and I spent almost a week in Barcelona. Great city. Great weather. Lots to see and do. And of course… shopping. The place is absolutely overrun with souvenir shops. T-shirts, magnets, mugs, little Sagrada Família models — the same stuff over and over again. Walking around, I kept thinking: “How on earth do all these places...
Read MoreNot long ago, leadership conversations had a familiar cadence. There was an inherently outward posture — a bias toward expansion. Even risk was framed in the context of opportunity. That orientation has shifted. Now the questions are more circumspect:
Read MoreI was in a strategy session recently with a management team trying to build a forecast. Good business. Smart people. Plenty of data. And completely stuck - not “this is tricky” stuck, but “we’ve been talking in circles for an hour” stuck. They were trying to answer a simple question: What does next year’s revenue look
Read MoreWe spend a lot of time looking for better answers. But every once in a while, you come across something more useful than a better answer. A better question. And in my experience, there’s one that stands above the rest - and we use this question in almost every client engagement: “What would need to be
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