On November 21st my good friend Doug Jordon was ever so kind as to include me as on of this four facilitators in an interesting consultation in Toronto on “Addressing the Technical Skills shortage – Attracting and Integrating Technically Trained Immigrants into Canada’s Labour Force” hosted by The Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT).

I [...]

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Next week on December 6th, Harvard Business School Publishing is co-sponsoring a virtual seminar on Authenticity: Are You Delivering What Consumers Want? It features James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II, co-authors of Authenticity: ‘What Consumers Really Want as well as The Experience Economy”. While I am not recommending or endorsing the [...]

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I was very pleased recently to come across Jack Martin Leith’s blog “Creating The New. In it he has published a whole chapter that he contributed on creating collaborative gatherings using large group interventions.

Jack and I have since been in touch and he has been so kind as to share with our readers [...]

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At 1-Focus, we believe that organizational change and community sustainability requires us to see outside the box.  One way is for us to read beyond our area’s of expertise and to engage in “unrelated” activities.  And to this end, I thought I would refer to the following Newsweek article and post my comment.  Much has [...]

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On September 19th, Hewitt announced in a press release Europe’s Top Companies for Leaders. Sponsored by global human resources services company Hewitt Associates, in partnership with The RBL Group, a firm dedicated to helping clients increase quality of leadership and deliver the strategic HR agenda, and FORTUNE magazine, the Top Companies for [...]

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BlessingWhite Press Release – October 16th, 2007
Chief Executives make seven classic complaints about their leadership team, according to BlessingWhite, a global consulting firm based in Princeton. The complaints are clear signs that the senior-management team is not functioning well, the firm said.
“As a rule, such gripes or comments made by the President or Chief [...]

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What does it mean to leave a legacy?
Monika had given serious thought to retiring. She had held those thoughts for more than two years! She was at the right age–actually a bit beyond her planned time of retirement–and she was ready to let go of the reins. There were so many things she wanted to [...]

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Have you ever wondered what it would be really like to walk through the door into a Professional Kitchen?
Roberta of 1-Focus and Gavin Clutterbuck of Chex.ch are co-sponsoring an exciting new team building event on the evening of Thursday, November 28th at Gavin’s professional kitchen in Geneva, Switzerland. This is unlike ANY training [...]

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