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Going deep to solve traffic congestion
Limiting vehicles or adding new surface-level roads to relieve traffic congestion are solutions that create their own problems. Two scientists at England's University of Nottingham are proposing a different idea in the form of deep roads created from shallow,...
Subcontractors can structure contracts to mitigate project risk
How subcontractors can mitigate risk in their contracts At a risk management seminar in Ottawa in late February, Dan Leduc, a partner at the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright LLP outlined several different ways in which trade contractors might simply use the contracts...
Why Is Marketing Important? 9 Reasons Why You Really Do Need It
Do you know what your customers want? Do you think your customers trust your products? When was the last time you saw a customer tweeting about your product or service? Was it a complaint or compliment? The answers to all these questions lie in marketing.How you...
You’re One in a Million – How do You Stand Out?
You’re one of a million speakers. How do you stand out? Let’s say you’re appearing at one of those enormous, week-long events like Hubspot’s INBOUND. This year there will be more than 25,000 people and over 250 speakers, if the trends from the last several years...
How listening more will change you
leader in a large organization was having a difficult time influencing his employees to move forward on a significant project that needed to be completed in a short period of time. The people who were most resistant were long-time technicians at the company who...
Short-term pain for long-term gain: The new CEO’s dilemma
New CEOs often hear two conflicting messages: first, get out of the gate quickly because your honeymoon will be short and you need to show results; second, play for the long haul. Can you do both? The answer is yes, but it’s hard, and the results can be bittersweet....
Can You Master Your Motivation?
Do you love conducting performance reviews? Do you swoon over submitting expense reports? Are you enthralled with preparing budgets? Face it, your leadership role demands some activities you will never love, swoon over or be enthralled to do. But you still need to...
How to be a Remarkable Long-Distance Leader
More and more of us are working remotely some or all of the time. Leaders are now challenged with managing teams spread across time zones. Taking on this topic of remote leadership is Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel in their book The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for...
Reflection can Improve Your Team’s Performance
Most of the leaders I work with are masters of multitasking. Their days are filled with meetings, conference calls, client visits and resolving complex problems. In short, they spend their time gulping water from a firehose, with no visible end in sight to the...