Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.It seemed an impossibly archaic legalistic ruleBack on the farm when Mom and Dad napped on Sunday afternoonsEven on bright sunny days late in the harvest seasonWhen crops needed to come off the fields.Nobody worked on Sunday....

The political challenges we face in Canada (and even in the U.S.) pale in comparison to what they're living with every day in Zimbabwe. I just wrote a press release about a seven million dollar shipment of food we're delivering there. Unfortunately, it's a drop in the...

Just when the U.S. seems to be getting their act together, our government is falling apart at the seams. It seems to me we expect better behaviour from our kindergarten kids than we do from our government representatives. And with that thought, for the benefit of...

Here's the scenario: you're having lunch with 5 people. Two of them are members of the board of directors for the organization you work for. One of them is your boss. The other two are consultants that you have hired who've come to the board meeting to make a...

Three years ago, her report card said "Nicole is reluctant to speak up in class". She was tentative, never raising her hand, never sure enough that she knew the answer.Today, at parent teacher conference, we heard words like "confident, leader, self-assured,...

We are settled into our new offices, and it's lovely, but I'm having to get used to the noise of the mall on the other side of my wall of windows. It's hard to resist the urge to people-watch when I should be working (or even blogging about people-watching when I...

This morning I heard on the news that Barack Obama was encouraging the heads of the big banks to forego the big bonuses they usually get every year. Ummm.... duh?! Wouldn't that be a foregone conclusion? I thought the whole purpose of bonuses was to reward people for...