Archive for Leadership
Call To Action
I had the opportunity to sit in on a key-note address today at a conference here in Halifax. The speaker was a high-profile individual who was once our country’s ambassador to the United Nations and who has had amazing influence on the world stage in dealing with humanitarian crises such as HIV-AIDS and poverty. He [...]
Weasel in the House!
Imagine my surprise. A couple of weeks ago I am at home alone, sitting in a living-room chair and I see something scoot out from under the couch. Startled, I get up out of the chair to see this…weasel (it’s a stoat actually, I had no idea what it was at the time – this [...]
Good Sports-Womanship
Now here is something you don’t see every day. In a woman’s college baseball game last weekend between Western Oregon and Central Washington, Sara Tucholsky hit the first home-run of her college career. Unfortunately, in her excitement rounding first base she missed touching the bag. As she turned to retrace her steps, her right knee [...]
Home Team Advantage
It’s playoff hockey time. Being a Leafs fan I have little to cheer about…and that’s not just this year, unfortunately. However, being a Canadian I still have a deep love for playoff hockey. Tonight I am watching a game and it strikes me how valuable home-team advantage is. Having a crowd of people behind what [...]
Stand Up!
I have been travelling a lot this week on business. For me, it is always exhausting to be on the road, away from home and family. I just arrived home this evening and was catching up on some of the blogs that I enjoy reading. Yesterday, Tim Sanders wrote a good post called Stand For [...]
Eco-Integrity
Since naming my company Marketing Integrity, I have been quite tuned in to anything that has to do with integrity, period. Marketing or not. I came across a blog post by Tim Sanders today called Turn the Lights Out, The Party’s Over. Tim reminds us of the old saying that “integrity is what you do [...]

