The Three Rs
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Corporate services branches, particularly in small organizations, often have difficulty balancing scarce resources, skills and effort to satisfy competing expectations...
Building the social media business case
2 min read
To maximize (social media) potential within your organization, intelligent risk management is essential.
Deficient data fails program evaluation
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This will be a defining budget for Stephen Harper. It will chart the financial course of the federal government for...
The strategic planning imperative
4 min read
In the wake of the G8 and G20 meetings it was expected that the government would build on the success...
Coaching ourselves: Achieving success through guided conversations
5 min read
Henry Mintzberg is Canada's most celebrated management thinker. He and colleagues have recently developed a method to help organizations become...
Pleins feux sur l’Ontario
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Début septembre, la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) célébrait le 10e anniversaire de Showcase Ontario, sa conférence annuelle d'apprentissage sur...
Why tomorrow’s cities need tele-working today
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The federal election campaign has not been particularly kind to cities and, by extension, the growing majority of Canadians who...
Both sides now: looking at clouds and the gathering storm
5 min read
Two important global events are garnering much attention: the upcoming Winter Olympics and December's global forum on climate change in...
Getting to the core of adversity
6 min read
How many adversities do you encounter in a day? Does 23 sound right? That's the number that Paul Stoltz, who...
How the mighty fail
6 min read
Good leaders can make bad decisions. President Kennedy blundered over the Bay of Pigs. Margaret Thatcher championed a poll tax...