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…