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If enterprise in its purest form is about executing on great ideas, creating value, working with teams, inspiring customers and making a cultural impact, then business might just be the greatest art of all. This post gets an MFA to help the MBAs, reports on orchestration, recalls the world’s first abstract (female) painter, rewatches a 1970s BBC miniseries and looks through an artist's eyes. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.” -Andy Warhol Way back

Any full life includes joy and collapse, love and loss, laughter and sorrow. When your proverbial house falls down, you can rebuild to spec or choose a new plan. The big question is, in the wake of destruction, are you going to recreate something that was there before, or go for something new? Are you going to raise a Frauenkirche, or build yourself the Barbican? Similar challenge, different finish Bill Burnett and Dave Evans draw an explicit parallel between life design a

I’ve been working straight for 30 years, and this summer is the first time I have been unemployed indefinitely since I was 14 years old. I learned a lot from my very first job: Pay attention to people. Think ahead. Don’t ever stand still. Go ahead and do the things you think are worth doing. Refill the mushroom salad quick so those suckers don’t end up swimming in dressing. I’ve been a buffet server, a cashier, a retail floorwalker, historical interpreter, bartend

In February, the municipal sector in Niagara survived a few chaos bombs and local controversies that had an unexpected end. Queen’s Park announced governance changes that will affect Niagara and more are likely with Nomination Day for elections coming soon. Public sector workers have been stuck in a very strange Petri dish of what great leadership looks like when it’s under pressure. I was coming around to accept that fear is simply a job condition of working now, and th

February is stereotyped as a month for love (or sacrifice if you asked an ancient Roman) and is there even a difference? Love can be incredibly uncomfortable, demanding and difficult. Relationships are a critical element in life, and their importance is often overlooked. We don’t have mandatory classes in school for how to be in healthy relationships, though we are in them all the time. Charles and Ray Eames at home Whether through a romantic partnership, a work connection,

We recently had the opportunity to ski with friends, an experience I am feeling very grateful for. Skiing was not on the itinerary for me when growing up and after a classmate broke her leg in grade 2 learning the sport, it became completely out of the question. I missed every ski trip to Holiday Valley and Kissing Bridge in high school, very envious of the happy people spilling out of a returning coach bus at night just as jazz band was wrapping up. They carried boots and li

According to The Global Story , enough people don’t read that we may very well be out of the ‘literate society’ that took off in the 18th century and Neil Postman described as revolutionary in Amusing Ourselves to Death . As a person who distrusts popular things, being an outlier on this particularly disturbing trend is just fine. I love reading, and love books. If it’s subversive and difficult now (once AGAIN, thank you history) to hold and read a book, I’m there for it

There's so much music in the world, and a lot to choose from on streaming platforms. As if it was 1998 and we were trading cassettes again, this post shares some favourite music from a big year. Listen to my 2025 Mix Tape on YouTube Music and find more detail below. Best... Album About Grief Cover the Mirrors, by Ben Kweller Written in the wake of the death of his fifteen year old son, heavy and beautiful. Nostalgia Acts Pulp and Superchunk, both putting out new albums in