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Pass the salt, and oh… you’re fired
Today, I had met up for lunch with a former colleague at one of downtown TO’s usual uptight “be seen” spots. As we were looking over the menu, she commented on the fact that it had changed since the...
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Gossip your way to a pink slip
Maybe it’s the lack of sleep, but I still haven’t managed to wrap my brain around this morning’s Globe and Mail article titled: Office Therapy. The article features a Q&A with Sam Chapman, author...
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When it’s time to go, it’s time to go
In some previous posts, we’ve been exploring the “career doom loop” and it’s affects on our motivation to stay doing what we’re doing. Once you decide that it’s time to move on, most of us go to the...
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Fast Friday with Murray Kane, SVP HR, LCBO
On more than one occasion, I have watched as mighty leaders have fallen out of their ivory towers and back down to earth. How quickly each one rebounds directly relates to how well they have kept in...
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The Obama bottom-line: don’t forget who signs your paycheck
President Obama pulled the trigger yesterday on Gen. Stanley McChrystal who shot off his mouth in Rolling Stone magazine and learned another management truism “everyone’s replaceable.” General...
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Career Derailment: The top 5 warning signs that you’re about to get fired.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes it’s much easier to see train wrecks about to happen to other people’s careers before your own? I just finished reading Lindsay Lohan’s interview in Vanity Fair...
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Captain Owen Honors: no honour in this career debacle
So Captain Owen Honors of the USS Enterprise (seriously, Hollywood couldn’t do better with these names!) has found himself in hot water over some ridiculous video’s he shot back in 2006. Cap’n Honors...
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Culture eats strategy for lunch… and it will eat leaders too
I first read the saying “culture eats strategy for lunch” when I stumbled upon Curt Coffman’s website (he’s the oft forgotten co-author of one of my favourite books First Break All the Rules with the...
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Yahoo’s Carol Bartz: Lessons in burning bridges
So Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been punted from her position for what appears to be a general lack of ability to meet the Board’s revenue expectations. Her defense is that the money’s coming in next...
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