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By Bradley Chisholm My business partner graciously arranged for my wife and I to take in a Lyle Lovett show in Victoria. There were no visual distractions, no opening band and no gimics. After an 8 word introduction on the microphone - Lyle…

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Forcing It: Does It Always Have to Be Difficult?

By Bradley Chisholm I love watching the Olympics – mastery, commitment and human potential on international display. It was not the typical events that caught my attention this year, however. I watched the Women’s Canoe Slalom –…

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Executive Coaching: The Gemini Project

By Bob Chartier It is mid afternoon and Bob, an executive vice president of a well known high tech company must decide what strategy to take in upcoming negotiations around a major international deal. He has scheduled a session with his ‘coach’…

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Talent: The Holy Grail Within

By Ian Chisholm, Bradley Chisholm and Mark Bell Our attention was caught the other day by a managing partner who told us she was immersed in what she called “the war for talent”. She went on to decry the “talent vacuum” created by…

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Coach vs. Mentor: Designing the Finest Meanings of Words

By Ian Chisholm, Bradley Chisholm and Mark Bell A Creative Director from the Royal Shakespeare Company once explained to me that if he went behind the curtain to speak with a troop of actors and announced that they would be performing Romeo…