Over the last few weeks, in quiet moments before class or during open conversations with students in my leadership course at Lambton College, HCL4103, here in Ottawa, we’ve kept circling back to one question - what does it really take to thrive out there? Not just to get hired or finish school, but … [Read more...]
Strategy Doesn’t Fail for Lack of Models. It Fails Because People Do.
We are drowning in strategy frameworks. Over the past sixty years, the business world has become obsessed with the architecture of strategy - from Ansoff’s growth matrix in the 1950s to Porter’s Five Forces, the Balanced Scorecard, Blue Ocean, and Transient Advantage. Each new decade brings new … [Read more...]
Care, Protect, Empower: The Triple Duty of Real Leadership
There are leadership traits that get celebrated - charisma, decisiveness, vision. And then there are leadership duties that go unnoticed, not because they’re unimportant, but because they’re quieter, slower, and far more demanding. Among these are three core responsibilities that rarely get … [Read more...]
Apprentice to Master: Why 10,000 Hours Still Matters
If becoming indispensable in a domain is the long game, and if deep work is the daily practice that fuels it, then what comes next is the path itself - the lived, deliberate journey from beginner to master. And while the world is overflowing with shortcuts, hacks, and shiny new tools, there’s still … [Read more...]
Depth Is a Discipline: How Deep Work Became My Guiding Compass
In a world that rewards urgency and punishes reflection, choosing to go deep feels almost subversive. But if there’s one thing I’ve come to believe - through work, through observation, and through my own trial and error - it’s that mastery is never an accident. It is designed, built, and sustained … [Read more...]