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June 22, 2021
I recently attended a virtual TEC Canada event where Ruthless Consistency author Michael Canic was the keynote speaker. Canic’s presentation was full of practical takeaways – in fact, I counted no less than 13 of them that I can apply in my business and suggest to […]
December 30, 2020
With four school-aged kids in our house, Christmas morning is quite the production. Wrapping paper flies everywhere as the kids open their gifts from Santa, mom and dad, grandparents, and other relatives. Among the mix this year was a new bike, a giant dollhouse, […]
December 17, 2020
Recently I partnered with my local Chamber of Commerce (one of the best little CoC’s in the world by the way!) to present a webinar about how to become a purpose-driven business. The presentation covered the what, why, and how of purpose-driven businesses, as […]
November 24, 2020
Last week’s news of St. John’s, NL-based Verafin’s sale to Nasdaq for $2.75 billion has many business owners in Atlantic Canada saying Wow! – myself included. In fact, when I shared a link to an article about the sale on my Facebook page, that’s […]
August 20, 2020
This week I attended the 2nd annual Founders Forum hosted by Planet Hatch in Fredericton. It was so great to be back at an in-person conference (yes, with all public health protocols in place) for the first time in what seems like forever. Founders […]
July 2, 2020
I write often about the four parts of any business, which I call the 4Ps: purpose, planning, people, and processes. Purpose + planning = the strategy of your business, that is, what you’re setting out to do and how you’re going to do it. […]
May 11, 2020
Once you have the right people in the right seats, and a process for ensuring that your people remain the right people in the right seats as the business grows (as discussed in the last article), you have set your team and your business […]
May 4, 2020
Many a business spends a ton of time, energy, and money on creating strategic plans that no one in the business can even put their hands on six months after they were created. All of the Rah! Rah! that resulted from the strategic planning […]