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When Resistance Is Really Responsibility

What looks like resistance is often responsibility. A story about leadership, trust, and why teams make progress when they stop arguing positions and start understanding what people are carrying.
A cartoon of two university leaders juggling flaming chainsaws instead of balls while a third person watches nervously. The caption reads, “We used to juggle balls... then axes... now flaming chainsaws,” illustrating the escalating complexity and risk facing higher education leadership.

Collapse, Not Correction: The Leadership Lesson for Canadian Higher Education

Canadian higher education is not facing a simple correction. It is facing a collapse that exposed fragile funding models, weakened leadership alignment, and the urgent need for institutional robustness.
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Don’t Be LaiZY: Summing up Cautious Comments on using Ai in Networking, Validation, and Brand Development

The risk with AI is not that it gets things wrong. It is that it makes it easy to stop thinking. Reflections on using AI for networking, validation, and brand development without outsourcing your judgment.
A regional aircraft parked at an airport gate with the Calgary skyline visible in the distance under a cloudy sky, symbolizing business travel and time spent on the road.

The Travel Rules I Swear By For Every Business Trip (20 Simple Boosts)

Business travel can either leave you depleted or sharpen you for the work ahead. Twenty simple rules for protecting your energy, maintaining perspective, and leading well while on the road.
A hand giving a thumbs-down over a container of spoiled strawberries beside a kitchen sink, illustrating food waste, rising grocery costs, and the importance of reducing household waste.

Leaders: Turn Scraps into Savings and Master Waste Reduction During the Grocery Crunch

Waste rarely starts with big decisions. It starts with small things ignored. A reflection on food waste, rising grocery costs, and what leaders can learn about stewardship, attention, and resource management.
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Decision-Making Under Pressure: Navigating Policy Shifts in Canadian Higher Education

The challenge is rarely the policy itself. It is the leadership response to uncertainty. Reflections on decision-making, judgment, and navigating change in Canadian higher education.