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How Business Leaders Can Contribute to Economic Reconciliation

The Mastercard Foundation’s Danbi Cho shares how corporate Canada can engage more meaningfully with Indigenous peoples, businesses and communities

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A Leader’s Guide to Year-Round Pride

Workplaces can do a lot more to support 2SLGBTQIA+ communities than flying a flag in June. Here are three ideas

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How Organizational Design Drives Delivery

Matthias Spitzmuller explains how the decisions leaders make about people, tasks, structures and culture can dramatically affect organizational performance

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Three Things Leaders Must Understand About Mental Health

Julian Barling and Simon Rego explain why it’s so tricky for leaders to tend to their mental health—and why it matters that they do

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Breathing New Life into Leadership

Too many workplaces are stale and lifeless. Do you want to boost the ren qi in your workplace?

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What Really Holds Global Virtual Teams Back

The promise of a tech-connected, internationally distributed workforce can often outpace the reality.

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Self-Control Is a Superpower With a Dark Side

Are you secretly paying a burnout tax for being the colleague who never drops the ball?

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Decision-Making Models That Keep Teams Moving

When universal agreement becomes impossible, these alternative frameworks preserve buy-in without sacrificing speed or accountability

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An Indigenous business man looks out only a mountain with financial graphs overalyed

How Business Leaders Can Contribute to Economic Reconciliation

The Mastercard Foundation’s Danbi Cho shares how corporate Canada can engage more meaningfully with Indigenous peoples, businesses and communities

Vector illustration of a vibrant and colorful large crowd of diverse people celebrating Pride

A Leader’s Guide to Year-Round Pride

Workplaces can do a lot more to support 2SLGBTQIA+ communities than flying a flag in June. Here are three ideas

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Who Says You Need a Young CEO to Conquer the World?

A study of Japanese multinationals suggests aging executives steer their firms to global paths they’re cognitively equipped to navigate

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Why Is Canada Still Doing GST the Hard Way?

Our small businesses spend billions every year doing paperwork that other countries automated years ago. A new study puts a price on the delay

Employee ownership can carry many benefits.

Understanding Employee Ownership

Elspeth Murray explains how employee ownership works in practice

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Nurturing Defenders of the Family Firm

Non-family employees may not share your last name — but they share your culture

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Helping Organizations Make Better Decisions

Vedat Verter explores how leveraging operations research can boost efficiency for social good

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The AI Playbook: Lead, Compete or Be Left Behind

How to turn AI from a tool into a true competitive advantage

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When AI Agents Are Too Smart for Our Own Good

What is lost when early-career workers no longer need to struggle with challenging assignments?

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The Hidden Risk in ESG Harmonization

Standardizing how companies measure sustainability gives executives a clearer target to game

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The Green Future of AI

Can energy-hogging artificial intelligence actually turn out to be an important sustainability tool?

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A Phantom Retirement Crisis?

Why senior homeowners are doing far better than politicians claim, and why a soft real estate market is nothing to fear

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How to Build a Baller Brand, From Scratch

Toronto Tempo Chief Marketing Officer Whitney Bell shares what’s involved in building excitement and affinity for a product that doesn’t yet exist

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Is Black Friday Still Worth the Work?

What was once a clear retail boon has become a significant effort for brands and shoppers alike

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Finding Your True Self in the Digital Marketplace

The relationship between social media influencers and their followers provides a new way to understand authenticity in the virtual world

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How to Manage the Comedown

Olympic and Paralympic athletes offer advice on navigating the energetic and emotional aftermath of a major milestone

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Your Rival Just Made a Huge Acquisition. Now What?

An acquirer’s actions—not their market position—signal whether a deal creates risk or opportunity

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Four Reasons Our Economy Needs Employee Ownership Now

Sharing equity with workers can benefit individual businesses and their owners. And when done right, experts say it can also help tackle some of Canada’s trickiest economic challenges

An Indigenous business man looks out only a mountain with financial graphs overalyed

How Business Leaders Can Contribute to Economic Reconciliation

The Mastercard Foundation’s Danbi Cho shares how corporate Canada can engage more meaningfully with Indigenous peoples, businesses and communities

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When Blockchain’s Greatest Assets Were Its Undoing

An immutable ledger for the marine industry supply chain seemed like a great idea. Unfortunately, it had a fatal flaw

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A Do-It-All Kitty for Canada

Ottawa’s Canada Strong Fund is part investment vehicle, part retail savings product, part infrastructure bank. That ambiguity could be its undoing