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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “Employees First, Customers Second”

I usually post a picture for Throwback Thursday but for something different today, I thought I’d post a different type of “throwback”. I was recently talking with someone about the best leadership/management/business books we’d read. I said I have a few favourites but one called “Employees First, Customers Second” by Vineet Nayar was the first […]

Posted 21 October 2021 § MemoryLane § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Great Attraction or Great Attrition? It’s Up To Employers…

Some of the society-shifting impacts of Covid are being seen most clearly in workplaces.  A lot depends on whether managers and leaders are able to shift their thinking…

Posted 19 October 2021 § Canada § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Everything Wrong With The National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (A Partial & Incomplete List)

Hudson’s Bay Company selling orange shirts. Provincial governments such as Saskatchewan who don’t declare it a holiday (even as some cities within those provinces do). Catholic schools putting the Christian cross on their orange shirts. Businesses, organizations & people that don’t buy their orange shirts from Indigenous companies. Our federal government and its representatives continuing […]

Posted 30 September 2021 § Canada § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

“Heels” Trailer

I find it hilarious that my wife wasn’t going to watch this wrestling-based TV series until Ben Mulroney of all people recommended it on the CTV Morning News! (Of course I also find it funny that Ben Mulroney is recommending this behind-the-scenes wrestling show which has lots of violence – as you’d expect – and […]

Posted 22 September 2021 § Family § Humour § PopCulture § Shea § Sports § Video § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – The Role of the Crowd in Pro Wrestling

Love the way the crowd is an active participant in these two recent clips from AEW.  Even if you don’t know the wrestlers or the storylines and back story to these clips, you can’t help but feel the energy… CM Punk Debuts After Seven Years Away From Wrestling: Bryan Danielson Challenges Kenny Omega:

Posted 17 September 2021 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Making a Difference at the Library (May 2021)

“He likes repetition,” she said. “So it’s like ‘yea you were just at the library to visit Jason, and you got to see Cheri, and Shirley gave you the hand stamp. There’s a real connection there that’s vital to him.’” Brandon was a child of the system who was put into foster care at the […]

Posted 16 September 2021 § Library § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Seth Meyers Remembers Norm MacDonald

 

Posted 15 September 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Secular Sunday – Pastor Who Kept Church Open During Pandemic Dies of Covid

If you believe in mythology, it’s a lot harder to believe in science… (And honestly, I picked one random example but there are dozens if not hundreds of examples from across North America and around the world where religious leaders are playing a role in making the pandemic worse by giving bad advice to their […]

Posted 12 September 2021 § Humour § Sad § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Antarctica, South Pole at Night

Posted 07 September 2021 § Randomness § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“The Walls Are Closing In On The Unvaccinated”

An Angus Reid poll showed that 75 per cent of Canadians agreed with the statement “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who chose not to be vaccinated and then got COVID-19.” In B.C., 53 per cent favoured making vaccines mandatory in public places to make life harder for unvaccinated people, while another […]

Posted 31 August 2021 § Canada § News § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,