It was one of the most stressful times of my life. I had just built a new house, we had our first child who had colic, I was trying to...

Recently I have been able to rub shoulders with a number of immigrants who are interested in buying businesses and who are interested in...

Recently I was invited to speak at a zoom meeting with leadership professionals from across North America. I was talking about the...

“I can’t find anyone who wants to work”, my client spoke boldly as he told of his frustration with hiring young Millennials. I had heard...

Let’s face it, many of us feel crunched for time. We have a variety of activities and tasks that seem to need our attention on a regular...

If organizations could fix these three things, most businesses would thrive again. Jesse sat in my office shaking his head. His business...

As a distraction from business, I competed in triathlons for a number of years. While I was never really competitive, one of my most...

We couldn’t have had a better boarder! Billy Burchell would come each and every week from McLeod Lake to live with our family while he...

A couple of years ago we were engaged by a construction company owner who was struggling to take his business to the next level. He was...

For many years my company floated along without concrete goals and then one day I came across a sign that said “Double your Sales”. I...

Unless you are a manager complaining about your employees' lack of performance, most of us don’t consider our own performance on a...

I just about quit. I was almost two hours and 55 km into a 152 km gran fondo cycling event in Penticton a few weeks ago when I felt like...

As a child I was made to eat everything on my plate and was told that wasting food was affecting the starving children in China. Today,...

In 2014, one of my professors in my MBA program asked the question, “Why are you here?” As he went around the class, many people...

Imagine paying to have someone bring in a washing machine into your house and set it up and then having to fire them before the job was...

The great resignation is something that people around the world are talking about. Not only are baby boomers retiring, many people who...

George has a small manufacturing plant that he bought 6 months ago. George bought the company because it had good revenue and came with...

“We just can’t find anybody qualified to do the job for us” is a line that I hear repeated regularly lately in working with clients. It...

The relationships we have with suppliers are often critical to our success in business. However, most business owners and managers don’t...

We were walking by the Vancouver airport recently and an employee was standing outside of the Plaza Premium Lounge greeting by passers...