by mvboronowski | May 4, 2010 | Adaptability, Leadership
Previously on Lost in this series: We avoided self-righteous indignation We said nice things to people Locke totally isn’t Locke, he’s the smoke thing OMG AMIRITE!!1!ONE1! Ahem… Focus Part Two Put on your blinders and blinkers boys and girls. One Track Mind...
by mvboronowski | Apr 27, 2010 | Adaptability, Leadership
Over the next few weeks I’m transitioning from one workplace, where I’ve been for the last five years, to a new job. This move means I will have left, on good terms, ten jobs. Not that it’s a major accomplishment that I’ve had that many “serious” jobs since high...
by mvboronowski | Apr 21, 2010 | Leadership
There is an old Hindu saying that you can’t spell culture without cult. I think it was from the Thuggee cult, made popular by the third best Indiana Jones movie, Temple of Doom. Or maybe I just made it up. Whatever the case, the point is that Lululemon is pretty...
by mvboronowski | Feb 8, 2010 | Collaboration
With the actual crisis and the realization that having hockey teams in the American South might not be a great business model after all, Quebec City has started dreaming about a possible return of its beloved Nordiques. In this context, I would like to propose a...
by mvboronowski | Dec 9, 2009 | Communication
Editor’s Note: my controversial compassionate conservative of a co-editor, Kurt Heinrich, is not sold on opening a LinkedIn account to manage his professional connections, nor is he eager to use Twitter to build a professionally-minded “micro-brand”...
by mvboronowski | Nov 12, 2009 | Leadership
The Alberta government has recently announced that all Alberta government employees who have been absent due to sickness for more than three consecutive days will now be required to swear an oath declaring they were sick in front of a commissioner of oaths (read the...