What I am Learning from Dinner Conversations about Gratitude
Having dinner together as a family is one of the simplest things that you can do to build a healthy community at home. Whether you share a meal with one person or twenty, taking time together to reflect on our experiences enhances everything from happiness to...
How to Show Up for a Grieving Colleague
It might be a death in the family, a miscarriage or a new life situation that hugely alters their life trajectory. Whatever is the event, it plummets your colleague into grief. While many workplaces offer short term bereavement leave, it’s never enough time. Sooner or...
Five Lessons about Learning from Home Renovations
Last weekend my family moved into our new home, which needs many minor renovations. Things like re-sealing toilets, gutter cleaning and caulking, fence-repair, dimmer-switch-installing, and many similar tasks me uncomfortable because I suck at them. A recent HBR...
Grantland, The Wire and Smacketology
But that’s not what I’m talking about. The Souperbowl isn’t the thing that’s rocketed Grantland into a new whole class of awesome.
Smacketology is what’s rocketed Grantland into a whole new class of awesome. It’s got all the cool components of the Souperbowl and is also edutaining and important.
XYBOOM Conference Discusses Workplace Community
[Editor's note: whether you're an un-or-under-employed Millennial, Gen Xer, or Baby Boomer, you should be paying attention to an upcoming awesometastic collaboration between Service Canada, My Loudspeaker, the post-secondary community, and many change-making...
The Art of the Thank You
Wow. We're almost in the middle of January. Have you thanked everyone for the holiday cheer upon-which they bestowed you? It's important to say thank you to people - or a community - who (or that) have done you right. Saying "thanks" is the good behaviour that builds...
The Early Entrepreneurs Experiment
This is all kinds of community-awesome. Earlier today, Friend of The 'Boot, Zac Whyte, shared the video below, which is a very awesome Taylor Conroy's Destroy Normal campaign. Check it out here: Simply put, there needs to be more of this. Later this week I'm going to...
Rating Agencies: What’s Wrong With You?
The financial crisis has tarnished many myths that have been presented as truths during the last decade or so – for example, lower taxes inevitably create wealth, autoregulation works, money trickles down, etc. However, many ideological and concrete elements of the...
99 Ways to Leverage our Humanity – Part 4
[Editor's note: And so concludeth the experiment. This has been an incredibly inspiring community-driven team effort - thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! The world's Occupy Movements might be dwindling, resting or might just be unreported. Many...
Exhibition Unites Energy with Art and Motion
VANCOUVER: eatART presents an exhibition illuminating the connection between art and energy through photography, paintings, performances and art-in-motion at the Great Northern Way Campus on December 15th.
Community Decision Making
Last night I had a beer and a chat with a man who is is wise beyond his years. He shared with me some great ideas about decision making in organizational environments, such as charities, social enterprises, businesses, the government, the non-government, and...
99 Ways to Leverage our Humanity – Part 2
[Editor's note: I must start by saying that what unfolds below is a team effort - thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! So, for better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied - and in some places, like Vancouver, this may or may...
99 Ways to Leverage Our Humanity
For better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied - and in some places, like Vancouver, these occupations may be coming to an end. Many elements of the Occupy Movement have issued demands. Personally, I see many problems with demands, as they...