As another year draws to a close, I’d like to publicly thank the clients and partners I’ve had a chance to work with this year. Prince George Urban Aboriginal Strategy Aboriginal Business Development Centre, Prince George Building Our Legacy Together, Aboriginal Youth Council Vancouver Island Aboriginal Transition Team Windsor House School National Aboriginal Forestry Association Karyo Communications City of Vancouver, OneDay campaign Chief Dan George Centre at Simon Fraser University Centre for Native Policy and Research Department of Indian Affairs and Norther Development, BC Economic Development Directorate Committee Against the Sexual Exploitation of Youth The Justice Institute of BC First …
I’m anticipating some lighter blogging ahead, as I will be offline for a couple of weeks after Christmas. So let me take this opportunity now to wish everyone who celebrates it, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all. Thanks for another year of reading, writing, linking, and learning.
Getting near Christmas, and I love the sacred music that gets sung at this time of year. Although this track isn’t Christmas music, it is from the Ukranian Orthodox Christian tradition, and is a haunting and meditative chant. This is from a fine site of russian orthodox music and information. This is an Antiphon, chanted text that is sung in a servics, often in a planisong setting. mp3: Brethern of the Valaam Monestary – First Antiphon of the THE Valaam Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
I just had lunch with Jessie Sutherland from Worldview Strategies. It was one of those encounters that was a long time in coming: we both seem to run in circles that intersect and I’ve known about her work for about a year but until today we had never met. I first became aware of Jessie’s work through an email inviting me to join a conference call on residential school reconciliation. Following the links, I found her website and her company, Worldview Strategies. Jessie’s life and work is about reconciliation and peacemaking and it intersects with my work on a number …
It’s hard to get enough of Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Brazil’s Semco. In a new article from Strategy+Business he talks about participatory management: Asked why true participative management is still such a rarity, Mr. Semler cites two elements that he says are in sadly short supply: “One, the people in charge wanting to give up control. This tends to eliminate some 80 percent of business people. Two, a profound belief that humankind will work toward its best version, given freedom; that would eliminate the other 20 percent,” he says. The only reason there aren’t more people like Ricardo Semler …