I was giving a talk in Toronto today to the very-cool team in the Telus marketing department and I shared some thoughts about business heroes that I thought you might like. I’ve always been impressed by heroes of the business world. Who couldn’t admire Ted Turner who brought us the…
Maybe you haven’t heard of Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D – I hadn’t either, but you need to know what he’s talking about. After 35 years studying that 78M person bulge in our demographic curve, known as Baby Boomers, he knows a lot about what’s going on as we age. The biggest…
Here are two words that are spending a lot of time in my sentences lately: ‘efficient’ and ‘effective’—and they’re very different. When we become more efficient we get better and faster at something like responding to our email, scheduling, or filling in forms. But, when we become more effective we…
Maybe this has happened to you. It’s May, kids are already thinking of the holidays, you know you should get something on the calendar, but you’re so busy with work commitments that it doesn’t happen. July rolls around you make an obligatory trip to the local campground, spend half the…
Have trouble getting your eight hours a night? It seems that far too many of us are sleep deprived and operating on half-charged batteries. For years I prided myself on how I could scrim on the zzzzz’s and get more done than most. And then it started to catch up…