Share I read a pretty interesting article on Google and their “People Operations” the other day. It was about how Google applies “analytics” to its human resources.  I have always had a “blind spot” to human resources inside of companies, mainly for the reason that they don’t apply any analytics to what they do.  Well [...]

Share The other day I received a letter from one of our Nurse Next Door team members that reminded me of how powerful of  an impact that we have on peoples lives when our purpose is aligned with what someone does. It prompted me to ask the question: what are we doing on a regular basis [...]

Share We are expanding our home care franchise system to the United States. In doing so, Ken and I met with a lot of very successful entrepreneurs to have them share their learning lessons and tips in doing so. For some reason, in Canada, our culture is one of fear of doing business in the [...]

Share Back in our first four years of building Nurse Next Door, we were one of the fastest growing companies in the country. All of a sudden, after starting with zero employees and running our business out of a Starbuck’s coffee shop, we had a home care company with a 1000 employee’s. But when you [...]

Share My last post “Now That I Know My Core Values, What’s Next?” generated a number of questions about the “Mission to Mars” exercise. The Mission to Mars is the classic exercise right out of Jim Collin’s playbook to discover your core values. But I will tell you about that in the next post. First, [...]

Share I feel that there is a culture and core value revolution going on. I hear from entrepreneurs around the world who are discovering, or “re discovering” their company’s core values, and who are starting to place a greater emphasis on creating their corporate culture. It’s great; perhaps a lashing out at what has happened [...]