Tagged: Business

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Pooh-Pooh Culture

It’s insidious. It undermines trust, saps initiative and likely already infects your workplace: welcome to pooh-pooh culture. Wikipedia defines “pooh-poohing” as “a fallacy in informal logic that consists of dismissing an argument as being...

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The Curse of the Gourmet Mustard

Mustard and the Marginal Economy I have the good fortune of living next to the top food market in the world: Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market. Every Saturday I troll the market for free samples. It’s...

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The secret to management

30% of management is figuring out whether or not what you’re doing is helping the organization. 20% is figuring out how to stop doing the stuff that isn’t helping. 30% is executing the stuff...

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What gets measured, gets managed

“What gets measured, gets managed.” Peter Drucker said that, and with good reason. Far too many business decisions hinge on what’s “good for us,” “core to our mission,” “innovative” or any one of a...