Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.
WATERLOO - A University of Waterloo research group is inviting five Canadian leaders in the field of social innovation to share their insights on how to deal with the root causes of social challenges.
Kitchener - Come join us on May 13, 2010 for a wonderful evening of wine tasting and comedy as the Women in Construction (WinC) hold their spring event at The Tannery in Kitchener.
1 Put on your best “face”: Don’t publically post anything that would appear unprofessional to a hiring manager or recruiter on sites such as Facebook or Twitter. Use your privacy settings when posting personal information.
KITCHENER – The Waterloo Region Hall of Fame will hold its Annual Induction Ceremony at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Kitchener on Sunday, May 16 at 2 p.m. Join the citizens of Waterloo Region as they pay tribute to seven individuals and one sports team in recognition of their accomplishments and outstanding contributions to this community. Light refreshments will follow the ceremony.
Waterloo - Laurier MBA graduate Olga Pawluczyk has an eye for business. Her company, P&P Optica Inc., which she runs with her father Romuald, specializes in the design and manufacture of high-precision optical instruments called spectrometers.
TORONTO - University of Toronto, a world-leading research university, announces a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both near and far field images, simultaneously, in high resolution. This unprecedented capability can be broadly applied in industry, including manufacturing, medicine, defense, security -- and for the consumer market.
CAMBRIDGE – Waterloo Region Children’s Safety Village Chair Lee Fitzpatrick, Design and Construction and Transportation Divisions of the Region's Transportation and Environmental Services Department, Regional Chair Ken Seiling, and representatives from the Waterloo Regional Police Service will gather at the Waterloo Region Children’s Safety Village today at 11 am to celebrate the opening of the new Roundabout at the Children’s Safety Village.
ITIL, Six Sigma, Lean, TQM, Agile Development, Scrum, XP, APM, PMBOK, strategy maps, and portfolio management the list goes on and on. How does anyone make sense of all the management mantras?
WATERLOO – What does candy have to do with analyzing blood specimens? How does the brain work? Wilfrid Laurier University answers these questions and more through its two new summer science camps for children – SPARK and BrainWorx – at the school’s Waterloo campus.
GUELPH - The Co-operators today released its sixth annual sustainability report, which outlines the organization's sustainability strategy and its progress in 2009 in achieving economic, social and environmental objectives. Last year saw the organization's efforts expand beyond incorporating sustainability principles into its own operations, as it increasingly focussed on promoting sustainable behaviour throughout Canada.
The campground business has been the most resilient sector of the travel and tourism business throughout the recession. But it’s not just because campgrounds offer the most affordable vacation option.
Guelph - University of Guelph researchers have uncovered one of the reasons why piglets often struggle with illness and sometimes die when they are weaned from their mothers.
I must say from the outset that when the words “leadership” and “emotions” are used in the same sentence, I cringe. (Actually, a minute electrical signal is passed from my brain stem to a little almond-shaped thingy in my brain called the amygdala whereupon it is quickly compared to my personal library of weird and wonderful emotional responses created over a lifetime so that it can select one and use it to tell me how I feel about the sentence.
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