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Jun 10
4 min

COVID chaos creates opportunity to redesign corporate culture

Organizational culture, it was once declared, eats strategy for breakfast. The line, often attributed to the famous management consultant

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Interview: What Makes A High-Performance Team?

Bruce McLeod

Dec 3, 2019
1 min

Interview: What Makes A High-Performance Team?

As leaders, building a high-performance team is something we all aspire to do! I believe leadership manifests itself in the commitment and

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Tell Them They Have Broccoli in Their Teeth

Bruce McLeod

May 9, 2019
1 min

Tell Them They Have Broccoli in Their Teeth

Recently I had the honour of joining my good friend Dave Veale and his co host Greg Hemmings on their fun and important podcast The Boiling

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Bruce McLeod

Mar 29, 2018
3 min

Hey Dad, are we there yet?

When I think about my leadership journey it has many parallels to both perspectives. For the first 80% of my career it was Bruce on the airp

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Bruce McLeod

Dec 15, 2017
3 min

Why do I have to know??

so fondly remember as a kid, the frenzy of excitement on Christmas Eve as mom tried to get my sister and I to go to sleep. The recurring th

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I Need to Turn Left, But the Cow Won’t Move!

Bruce McLeod

Nov 22, 2017
3 min

I Need to Turn Left, But the Cow Won’t Move!

I recently returned from 2 weeks in India where I was honoured to be co-delivering the first ever, live delivery, of a Royal Roads Universit

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How Mentor Coaching Improves Your Coach Performance

Bruce McLeod

Jul 25, 2017
2 min

How Mentor Coaching Improves Your Coach Performance

Mentor coaching is a great way to invest in your career and yourself. Not only does mentor coaching benefit you in a business sense, it is a

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Bruce McLeod

Jul 18, 2017
2 min

What Matters is your MIND

All through my childhood, I was known to everyone by the unenviable moniker of “Fatman”. It was a play on both my size, and the new and popu

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Bruce McLeod

May 12, 2017
3 min

Coming Full Circle

I lived for many years in resignation that this was what I had worked for, this was what I thought I wanted, and I had no choice but to ride

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Bruce McLeod

Apr 17, 2017
2 min

What Choice Are You Making?

As I here trying to get back to sleep my mind wanders and in typical entrepreneur fashion, I start to think about my business. Still struggl

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What if I thought of something differently?

Bruce McLeod

Oct 3, 2016
2 min

What if I thought of something differently?

A few years ago, I found myself coaching a number of senior leaders in a particular organization who were really searching.

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Bruce McLeod

Sep 5, 2016
1 min

The Power of a Single Question!

I kept telling my coach all the reasons why making the leap from my VP position to starting my own business would be foolish.

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