I recently finished The Heart of Business by Hubert Joly, the former CEO of Best Buy. He shares how he ditched the traditional corporate profit-first mindset and rebuilt the company around a people-first approach. The results were remarkable: in an era when retail was struggling, Joly led to Best Buy to six straight years of growth, and its stock rose …
The Working Genius is an assessment tool developed by the Table Group and Patrick Lencioni. It helps individuals better understand their gifts and frustrations at work while also helping teams understand how to better utilize each team member’s gifts. It’s 20% a personality tool and 80% a productivity tool. The premise of this assessment is two-fold: 1) People who are …
Introducing Thriving is the Goal, a podcast by Tim Chan and Mark Letchumanan. In this podcast, we’ll have conversations about what it looks like to thrive in work and life. Our first season is all about the Working Genius assessment, a personality and productivity tool that helps individuals and teams increase their joy and effectiveness at work and at home.
It’s become an annual tradition for Olive and I to share our top 5 reads of the year (here’s her top 5 reads from 2021). Here are my five favourite books that I read last year, three of which are memoirs, as well as a few honourable mentions.
In 2021, we added a land acknowledgement to our Coracle Coaching and Consulting website. We decided to do so for a few reasons. We thought we would share with you a bit of our journey in learning about Canada’s relationship with the Indigenous peoples and hopefully give you some reasons to consider including a land acknowledgement on your website as …
Just as I did 2017, 2018, and 2019, I made it one of my goals in 2020 to read one book a month. I exceeded my goal to reach 20 (the extra time during this COVID year and my digital detox in the summer both helped). Here’s a list of my top 5 books from 2020:
Guest post by Dr. Clement Chan Clement is a friend of ours and has been our family’s optometrist for the last 5 years. We asked him to share his experience of how COVID-19 forced his small business (Fremont Eye Centre, Doctors of Optometry) to shut down, how he responded, and what it’s been like since they opened up again last …
All Canadians need to prepare for the scenario where COVID-19 gets worse. Tom & Rita Hanks have it, NBA players Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell have it, and Justin & Sophie Trudeau went into self-isolation because of it (edit: it’s confirmed Sophie Trudeau has COVID-19). In the same way movie star and professional athlete sponsorships help to sell more products, these well-known names will certainly boost COVID-19 awareness …
Just as I did 2017 and 2018, I made it one of my goals in 2019 to read one book a month. It was the first year I exceeded my goal by reading 13 books (partly spurred on by the voracious reading of my wife who read 30 books). Here’s the top 5 books I read from 2019:
If you’re using Google Chrome as your internet browser, you may have noticed a slight change in the past 2 months. Some websites are now labelled “Secure” and some are labelled “Not Secure”. Why is this? Are some websites more secure than others?
