Journal

About six years ago we introduce the One-Page Focus Plan to the ViRTUS Community.  The OPFP is designed to help CEOs, entrepreneurs, and executives plan out the next twelve of their business and personal lives on one page. O, The Oprah Magazine, has recently published an...

21 November, 2008 /

Since I started this blog a number of CEOs and Entrepreneurs have asked me questions about the "how" and the "why" of blogging. A friend of mine, Maria LoScerbo, owns a PR firm in town called EpicPR and she blogged about a Globe and Mail article...

16 November, 2008 /

Daniel Goleman, author of the book Working with Emotional Intelligence, speaks at Google about his research into our social intelligence and it's effects on human relationships. It's about an hour long so if you'd prefer to read the key points here they are: Research into the difference...

12 November, 2008 /

The distinction between the old style of university lecture learning (pedagogy - child learning) where the professor has the answer or it's in a book, and our job is to write down as fast as possible the "nuggets" of information for the purpose of memorizing it...

05 November, 2008 /

The CEO of one of the companies we work with asked me this question over email yesterday: "Should a short term economic condition (or is it) affect strategic direction?"  I decided to share my answer since I know this question is on the minds of many...

04 November, 2008 /

I received this link today from Tana Heminsley (we work together at ViRTUS).  Tana has a passion for Authentic Leadership and so she sent me this video of Bill George, speaking about Authentic Leadership at Google.  He interviewed 125 of the top leaders alive today...

04 November, 2008 /