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Conflict Drives Better Innovation
To improve the quality and speed of innovation you want to get more conflict into the discussion. There are three steps to do this. Increase the diversity of the team. You want a collective of thought processes that drive different approach
Award Winning Filmmaker Shares Her Secrets for Innovation
She has won Emmies, Webbies, and The Banff Multimedia Awards but it hasn't lessened Katarina Cizek's passion to innovate and take new risks. She is a creative rebel that can encourage her whole team to break the rules and find the hidden gem. In h
Knowing How Boomers Think Can Make You a Better Marketer
How many times have you heard the axiom know your customer? It’s not enough to know their age and demographics. To be a truly effective marketer you need to know how they think. Boomers are not the aged or elderly. These are two very different cat
The Best Success Strategy for 2020
Success in 2020 will require new strategies. You won’t need to be a superhero or have all the answers. The greatest successes in 2020 will be built on four strategies: Build a deep network of friends and allies you can call on
Technology is Giving Us Better Control of Our Lives
Technology is driving the efficiency of healthcare up and the cost down. The primary reason is because it is giving control back to the individual and the more an individual feels in control the more they will be in control. Every day we are
Do You Spend Enough Time With The People Who Inspire You?
The popular business books encourage readers to prioritize networking to help improve bottom lines, to be connected, and to build and cultivate brand image. These books also strongly encourage readers to also develop relationship with a mentor wit
The Nine Strategies of High Potential Employees: Why Women Lag Men
What is your business strategy for getting ahead? Are you effectively using all the right levers? How do women compare to men with faced with the same challenges and opportunities? To determine what individuals do to advance their career Nan
Is Your Brand Digitally Delinquent?
Most CMO’s have recognized the power of digital media to enhance the brand experience but company guidelines are often more restrictive than “promotive” of the brand and a great brand experience. To survive and thrive, companies need to use digi
White Paper: COE Homeland Security and Resiliency
Our point of departure is in response to the ever growing threat spectrum of the 21st Century, in that private and public sector institutions are increasingly at risk because of the growing: frequency, severity, and, cost of threats. Th
Remarkable Work by Remarkable People
The Schulich Executive Education Center has had the opportunity to work with and help many remarkable organizations and individuals elevate their unique talents and abilities. SEEC’s primary objective has and always will be to help nurture leaders of
What does your Body Say
Do sporting teams collaborate better than corporate teams? Have you ever examined why? A team has a set of plays where everyone can trust what his team mate will do, where he will be and how he will carry out his part of the program. The same i
Learning from More Than 600,000 Executives
Knowledge and skill differentiates the business winner. Learning new skills from your customers, your supply chain, and your resource network, is critical in today's punishingly tough environment. The Schulich Executive Education Centre is proud
The Speed of Trust - a Critical Corporate Asset
TRUST allows a person to ask better questions, explore ideas more freely, and course correct without defensiveness. INSPIRING TRUST begins with trusting yourself, knowing your truths, trusting your own word, your own ethics and actions. Steve
Are Women Led Companies More Profitable?
It is a well hidden secret that companies with a higher representation of women on their board or in their senior management ranks succeed better and return MORE to their shareholders. In fact substantially better. Deborah Gillis, Senior V
The Future of Work
Corporations, Government and Service Providers from education to health will need to radically change to succeed and prosper in a knowledge based economy. We are at the cusp and we need to think and adapt at lightning speed. Mass production
Structuring for Success
Old style companies cannot maximize success in a knowledge based economy and the developed world cannot thrive but in a knowledge based economy. The disparity between rich countries and poor countries is too great for a rich economy to compete
Transforming Your Work Force and Yourself ©
“People don’t leave good companies; they leave bad leaders.” A lot of employees— 30%, according a recent Gallop poll— are basically complying and disengaged at work. They show up and, use minimal effort and energy with hardly a trace of passion. N
Our Greatest Test of Leadership
Outsourcing, Transparency, Speed of Change, Financial Meltdowns? What is our future? Will the foreseeable future be bleak or prosperous? Is the future in our hands or beyond our control? Hans-Paul Bürkner, president and CEO of The Boston Consultin
Do Women Succeed Differently?
Communication, team engagement, and customer centricity, are three ways women may contribute differently. Bridgette Brennan in her bestselling book ‘Why She Buys’ puts forth a powerful set of statistics and well documented studies in explaining in d
Impacting the World
Meet Paul Alofs, MBA ’83, Schulich Alumni "The measure of true success is the ability to impact society in a positive manner." Paul Alofs. There are quick victories like winning a game of tennis or a particularly grueling marathon, maybe th
Are We on the Edge of an Abyss?
Have we lost all faith in the core institutions that have brought the industrial world so far in the past thirty years? Are we poised to abandon the very things that brought us our success or will we dig in and go back to what has worked so well
Do You Have What It Takes to Lead?
Leaders bring about change. Unless they move people to new ideas, new methods, new goals or new visions you are not leading. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy, Winston Churchill, they were all great leaders that
The Best CEO’s Grasp Change with Enthusiasm
But They Need to Stay Out of Shark Infested Swamps. Most chief executives, will need to fundamentally transform their enterprise within the next five years. Shareholders and the Market are demanding it and Boards are increasingly appointing CEOs w
Retaining and Motivating Your Workforce
“People don’t leave bad companies; they leave bad leaders.” A lot of employees— 30%, according a recent Gallop poll— are basically complying and disengaged at work. They show up, they use minimal effort and energy with hardly a trace of passion. N
How Many Banks Have the Same Strategy?
There are 16,000 Financial Institutions in the US – How many do you think have a unique product differentiator? 90% Say they differentiate on the same thing- customer service- Blair Goulet To grab the attention of potential buyers your produ
Women Creating New Businesses-2x the Rate of Men
Women owned businesses are already creating new enterprises at a rate twice that of men (“+44%, from 5.4 million in 1997 to 7.8 million in 2007.”) Millions of women entrepreneurs already play a vital role in the world economy and yet their accompli
Innovation vs. Invention
In the dark old days the world believed it was more profitable and better for a company to innovate rather than invent. As we look back upon history today, there is a growing feeling that maybe they were wrong. Original invention and true disco
The Value of Benchmarking
If you learn to creatively benchmark there is no limit to how much you might improve your performance. It allows you to identify and adapt best practices from other organizations to improve yourself and your business. Benchmarking is a key ma
Sustained Profits Sustain Businesses
Is Free Cash flow the Holy Grail or is the Holy Grail what generates the free cash flow? Free Cash Flow is pretty important. Technically it is operating cash flow minus capital expenditures. It is the cash flow that a company can use to pay
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