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Mind Your Manners

 It never fails. Just when my faith in the innate goodness of human beings starts to soar and I begin to think that just maybe we can all play nicely in the sandbox, the crap hits the fan.  Not too long ago I was watching a Twitter exchange between two prominent, intelligent people who locked [...]

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Lost in Translation

As many of you know, I spent about 10 years in the Civil Service in Nova Scotia, and during that time I had occasion to meet a wide variety of individuals who advocated on behalf of an equally wide range of causes. One of the things that always struck me about my interactions with some [...]

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The Role of Governance, or Nobody Here but Us Boneless Chickens

What I’m about to say may seem self-evident or even silly, but is more important than many people and organizations realize: never underestimate the power of effective policies and governance. I am currently engaged with an incredibly talented and intelligent group of experts who have been charged with creating an online educational program for first [...]

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