The real issue for entrepreneurs is that you can’t simply delete the people and personalities from your business. You’re a small team, operating in a confined space and spending lots of time together. Let’s face it; your business is not about products and services. Your business is about people and relationships!
Think about it for a [...]

We had a wonderful night last Wednesday for graduates of The Right Mountain program at The Spoke Club. Toronto Career Counsellor Michael Reddy gave an interesting and inspiring talk about How to Stay Confident in these Challenging Times. The talk included having a “confidence checklist”, focusing on accomplishments and thinking about goals for one year [...]

A couple of years ago, the BBC ran a series called “The Happiness Formula.” As part of the show, they solicited comments from people around the world to find out what makes them happy.
Some of them are very interesting:
I’m 49 years old and a company director with far too much to worry me. I went [...]

The Globe & Mail recently reported a new phenomenon: the pink slip party.
It’s a grownup twist on a rather unsavoury practice seen in some of the more wild parties, where people wear different-coloured wristbands to show whether they’re “available” or “taken.” In this case, it’s whether or not someone is “hired” or “looking.”
“Everyone comes in, [...]

A blog called Work Happy Now! has an interesting entry about what Internet titan Google looks for in prospective employees.
It turns out they don’t employ your run-of-the-mill hiring practices! Part of their mission is to find a certain kind of person … a person who possesses what they call, and we kid you not, “Googlyness.”
Here [...]