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You’ve heard it before: to further your career, finding a mentor to guide you is important. Mentors are people who have experience and knowledge in your desired vocation, and who are willing and able to share what they know. But
Bracing for the boomer brain drain was the title of my regular column for The Globe and Mail that published on August 6. In it, I outlined five strategies to retain crucial institutional knowledge (and prevent corporate amnesia). It got
As the last of the Boomers move through their 50’s and beyond, those who elect to take early retirement often take decades of tacit knowledge with them. This boomer brain drain – the loss of undocumented, intuitive experiential information about
I often discuss the value of one-on-one mentoring relationships with my clients as well as here on the blog (in fact, one-on-one mentoring makes up a significant portion of my professional practice). The assumption with mentoring is often that it
About three years ago, I blogged about a very disturbing situation involving a Texas (so-called) veterinarian Kristen Lindsey and her now infamous cat kill. As difficult as it was to write it, I knew it was important to do so,
A couple of years ago, I posted a video on the blog under the title of You are a role model. The video had a lot of great messages in it, but more than anything else, it illustrated something that