Tag Archives: communication

It’s Not What You Communicate, but How You Communicate

May 1, 2012 – 7:13 pm

I just finished reading The New Science of Building Great Teams by Alex Pentland. This paper, put out in the Harvard Business Review, is one of the most fascinating reads I have had in a long time, kudos again to Paul Readwin our Chief Intelligence Officer at Business Instincts for coming across this as part of [...]

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3 Things I Learned from Gary Kovacs

April 22, 2011 – 10:14 am

We had the opportunity to see Gary Kovacs speak to a group of University of Calgary Alumni a few weeks ago. Gary has been the CEO of the Mozilla Corporation since October 2010, and brings a wealth of knowledge stemming from time at SAP & Adobe. He graduated from the U of C with both [...]

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What Does Clarity Mean to the BIG Team?

March 24, 2011 – 9:02 am

The Clarity Practice is one of the core offerings that we have here at Business Instincts Group and it incorporates a number of our proprietary Management systems such as our RIP Process, Visual Business Model and the RIPKIT. This week’s blog speaks to Clarity and what it brings to each team member’s well-being – in [...]

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Five Easy Steps to Transparency

January 11, 2011 – 12:18 pm

Be transparent in 5 easy steps. There is a call from investors, shareholders, media and business professionals to be “more” transparent. What is your ability to be open, honest, courageous, forthright, and clear in the context of business? Let’s make sure we are looking at this in the same way; transparent is defined as: 1.Easily [...]

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3 Lessons to Learn from Mogens Smed

September 23, 2010 – 8:51 am

This month I attended another excellent CCAT (Calgary Council for Advanced Technology) event where Mogens Smed was speaking –  ”The Leading Edge of Agile Architecture”. Very interesting and I was impressed with DIRTT and what they have created including an amazing technology they use. I found Mogens, entertaining, engaging, informative and I learned 3 lessons from his [...]

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