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Alex Himelfarb on Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge”

Alex Himelfarb’s recently released book, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge, examines the history and development of the neoliberal ideology, which approach unfortunately governs most so-called developed nations…

Musings on Timothy Snyder’s book: On Freedom

In this, my first foray into substack publishing I share my thoughts about Timothy Snyder’s excellent book, On Freedom: One of the concepts that I talk about in my book, Managing in Complexity: How Our Fear of Uncertainty Can Hurt Us and…

Virtual and Hybrid Working and Complexity

My how the time flies! On July 3rd, just under 400 folks joined Deputy Minister Gina Wilson and I in the webinar hosted by IPAC discussing my book, Managing In Complexity: How Our Fears of Uncertainty Can Hurt Us and What To Do About It. Gina…

Strategic Planning – A Waste of Time or Essential?

I would never say that strategic plans are a waste of time. In fact, based upon my studies and research in the field of complexity management, my view is just the opposite but for reasons that you might not expect. Strategic planning initiatives…

The Culture of Control

Just returning from my annual conference in managing in complexity at the Roffey Park Institute in England. Wonderful to see my colleagues from the Doctor of Management program and really enjoyed the many insightful conversations about how…

We can decide now what a post-pandemic Canada will look like

An overused expression originally attributed to Winston Churchill is that we should never waste a good crisis. The fallout from the pandemic has made it blindingly clear that if ever there were a time to follow that counsel, it’s now. A…

We need a new measure of our progress as a country

COVID-19 has uncovered weaknesses in our country that existed long before the pandemic. “Build back better” is a common directive for a post-pandemic period in which we move past the “norms” that maintained a less just society. To rephrase…