Over the past month I have been watching a lot of baseball.  For the record, I always watch baseball in October and usually watch the teams that I follow go down, one by one. This year was extra exciting due to the participation of my hometown Toronto Blue Jays, which...

How many times have we heard the suggestion that good a leadership style is essential to success? But then we ask ourselves of all the leadership styles what is the best one? Or is there a point in time when any of the leadership styles could be the right one? Are we...

My 20 year old day-planner continues to offer insight into my own personal styles of learning and management. I look at it several times throughout the day to check my short term goals and actions but sometimes I sit back and think ok, so what strategic thing have I...

I was recently in Barcelona Spain at the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM) World Summit. The IFPSM brings together 48 national purchasing and supply management associations from around the world to discuss trending purchasing and...

I would say none but maybe that is unfair, so let’s say few. Recently I estimated a client’s turnover to cost to be between $600,000 and $3,000,0001.  Despite my respect for the Finance Director, I am pretty sure he hadn’t factored any amount in their budget for...

I’m sure there are very few among us who have not from time to time heard the siren call of being your own boss. Setting your own hours, making the big decisions, maybe even sloughing off the small and “menial” tasks to others under your “command”….these thoughts are...