Norm Adams
Yes, shorter is better. Really!
We have an eastward facing living room. It’s my zen space. Usually, I go there to read in the early morning before settling in with a...
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Norm Adams
May 20, 20234 min read
Taking Care of the Home Team
We talk a lot in our newsletters about strategies that leaders can take to improve their work teams. We seldom talk of the home-team...
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Dave Fuller
Apr 25, 20233 min read
The Benefits and Challenges of a 4-Day Work Week for Your Employees
The labor force has changed. Earlier this year, a colleague shared that he was seeking someone to help him. Familiar with the ins and...
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Dave Fuller
Apr 13, 20233 min read
Are Immigrants Better Entrepreneurs?
Recently I have been able to rub shoulders with a number of immigrants who are interested in buying businesses and who are interested in...
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Dave Fuller
Feb 28, 20234 min read
AI is Going to Affect Your Business, What Are You Going to Do About It?
Last week I asked a group of university students how they were using Artificial Intelligence or AI in their studies. Their response was...
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Dave Fuller
Sep 22, 20224 min read
5 Things you can Do to Re-Energize Your Job and Your Life
Like many people, I was facing significant challenges and burnout last year. It was so bad that I told my team in September that I was...
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Dave Fuller
Sep 1, 20224 min read
5 Things That Affect Your Performance at Work that You Might Not Be Considering
Unless you are a manager complaining about your employees' lack of performance, most of us don’t consider our own performance on a...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 23, 20223 min read
Can You Work Less and Earn More?
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...
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Dave Fuller
Sep 9, 20213 min read
Why I Served Road Kill to My Investors
It was my lucky day when Emile told me that he had some road kill in his freezer that he would give me in trade for a couple cases of...
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Dave Fuller
Aug 26, 20212 min read
How Burned-Out Are You? Burnout is The Upcoming Leadership Crisis!
If you are in a leadership position and feeling burned out, you are not alone! It seems that weekly I am hearing from leaders who are...
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Dave Fuller
Aug 12, 20215 min read
Taking Family Out of Family Business
In early 2000, I had to fire my wife from our business. The business, a start-up, was struggling, and my wife was involved in running one...
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Dave Fuller
Aug 5, 20214 min read
5 Things You Should Know about Selling your Business
After a couple of years of pandemic stress, business owners are pondering their next steps. You might be an owner who has decided that...
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Dave Fuller
Jul 29, 20214 min read
5 Leadership Lessons from the Tokyo Olympics
My Olympic fascination started in 1976 when the summer games took place in Montreal. As a 12-year-old I was glued to our black and white...
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Dave Fuller
Jul 8, 20213 min read
3 Things Every Business Needs To Do To Improve Sales (But They Don’t)
Debra was flustered. She had taken over a business with the intent of growing it but had come to the realization that increasing the...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 30, 20212 min read
Incremental Change is the Key to Success!
Help is a word that is foreign to many entrepreneurs, and so when I get a phone call and the caller verbalizes that they need help, I...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 24, 20213 min read
Don’t Let Your Job Define Who You Are!
Norm was a faller! For three years, Norm fell big trees in the wilds of British Columbia. Norm was so good at falling trees that he could...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 17, 20213 min read
Why Many Leaders Are Lonely, And What To Do About It!
It was Sunday afternoon when I went over the handlebars of my bike, bent my front wheel and landed on my head. My son Caleb wasn’t...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 10, 20214 min read
What You and Your Business Can Learn From Strava
My cycling buddies have been using Strava for years to track their rides. Strava, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, is a phone...
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Dave Fuller
Jun 3, 20213 min read
The Tourism Rebound, Are We Ready?
Canadians are ready for the borders to be re-opened and will be flocking to sun destinations this winter like never before. The number of...
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Dave Fuller
May 27, 20214 min read
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start or Buy a New Business?
Weekly we get people reaching out to us at Pivotleader to get some advice on whether or not they should diversify their current business...
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