Category: Blog Articles

  • The 5 Core Values That All Great Leaders Have

    The 5 Core Values That All Great Leaders Have

    The leaders of all organizations have a number of things in common. They set the tone for the entire company, determine what it stands for and make sure the business stays on course. But the best of the best go farther. They’re strong, authentic, admirable leaders with deep core values — and they walk the talk. One recent…

  • October: The Monk and The Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

    October: The Monk and The Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

    Book Description “What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life…? It’s a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to “do what we have to do” to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller “The Monk and the Riddle”, entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it…

  • August: The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness

    August: The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness

    Book Description “Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? Are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your life? Dr. Steve Peters explains that we all have a being within our minds that can wreak havoc on every aspect of our lives—be it business or personal. He calls this being…

  • July: Disrupt Yourself

    July: Disrupt Yourself

    Book Description “Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson wants you to consider this simple, yet powerful, idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different–they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist.  As president and…

  • 3 Leadership Lessons Taught by Mr Miyagi

    3 Leadership Lessons Taught by Mr Miyagi

    When I was six, Columbia Pictures released the original Karate Kid movie. I loved it, and used my newly learned karate skills to punish the neighbors fence. (oops!) I now have a six- year-old. The Karate Kid has been on my mind this week. (yikes) I started playing hockey my freshman year high school. I was terrible.…

  • Say “No” with Respect

    Say “No” with Respect

    My phone rings and I frown. “Not him!” Does this ever happen to you? True story, this just happened to me. I couldn’t figure out why I was feeling the way that I was. I like the caller, we get along very well and have a lot of similar interests, but for some reason, I…

  • June: H3 Leadership: Be Humble, Stay Hungry and Hustle

    June: H3 Leadership: Be Humble, Stay Hungry and Hustle

    Book Description “In H3 Leadership, Brad Lomenick shares his hard-earned insights from more than two decades of work alongside thought-leaders such as Jim Collins and Malcom Gladwell, Fortune 500 CEOs, and start-up entrepreneurs. He categorizes twenty essential leadership habits organized into three distinct filters he calls “the 3 Hs”: Humble (Who am I?), Hungry (Where do I…

  • The Immediate Impact of a Trusted Coach

    The Immediate Impact of a Trusted Coach

    If you read last week’s blog post than you already know about the fishing, the fireworks, the creek, the mud, the upset dad. My weeklong trip to Northern Saskatchewan wasn’t as relaxing as the brochure promised. Thankfully, the truck came out, we got it cleaned up and we actually caught some pretty decent fish. If…

  • I Never Reached My Goal Because of Fireworks

    I Never Reached My Goal Because of Fireworks

    Do you ever feel like you are just spinning your wheels? You set a goal, you have some big plans, you start down the road and then BAM! Sidetracked, or worse…. stuck. The mud stuck truck. A few years back, I went fishing up in Northern Saskatchewan with my dad. I make it sound like…

  • Ever Take The Wrong Road?

    Ever Take The Wrong Road?

    Do you ever wonder if you are headed down the wrong path? Not “throwing your life away” kind of wrong path, the “focusing on the wrong priorities in life and business” kind of wrong path. I’ve been there. I started, and failed at, three businesses in the last ten years. Not one of them caught…