In search of excellence
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. ‒ TOM PETERS The search for excellence...
Hope floats
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, … it was the spring of hope, it...
Doing the right things right
Big Brother is watching you. – GEORGE ORWELL (1949): NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR By 2015, 245 million surveillance cameras were installed worldwide. That number is growing by...
Hopeful public service
A sometimes pessimistic Millennial offered a satirical retrospective on 2020. Growing up, she listened curiously to older generations tell of their...
Motivating unexpected results
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. ‒ ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF, PRESIDENT OF...
Leading inclusive workplaces
It takes teamwork to make a dream work. ‒ THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (2015) Linus van Pelt was...
Mainstreaming gender equity
When women are empowered, they become powerful agents of change capable of transforming their families, communities, and countries. – HONOURABLE MARIE-CLAUDE BIBEAU, FORMER MINISTER...
Studying public management in dangerous times
The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 road movie, coming-of-age story, and biopic. The film follows a young Che Guevara’s travels across South...
Speaking truth to empower
In March 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a civil rights audience at Grosse Pointe High School in Detroit. He...
Cultivating uncommon touch
Moonlight overcame a major gaffe during the 2017 Academy Awards to be named Best Picture. Barry Jenkins’ delicate, low-budget, independent...