Catalyst Strategic Consultants

When I get involved with a young company – one whose success has allowed them to think bigger – my job is to simplify for the leadership. Presidents, like everyone else in this overstuffed world of priorities, are swimming in a rip tide. They have their sights on something but they and their companies get […]

It Don’t Work Without the Personal How does real teamwork and corporate drive come about? Simon Sineck has a few things to say about this and Simon’s insights are at a cellular level. Literally! Every few years, Vistage/TEC – the world’s largest CEO organization with 16,000+ members around the world – holds a conference for […]

Parked here in the Casa Colonial in Cuernavaca, one could be forgiven for drifting around. Someone from looking at the photo said, “The pool’s not even frozen over!” Fascinating to be in Mexico picking up a sunburn and picking up on what’s happening here. Mexico has not been a fine, evolved culture in my experience. […]

If I believed the press, I’d be sucking air through a gas mask, cowering in the apartment with an armed guard outside. Instead, I’m sitting at an airy outdoor cafe by a broad boulevard, in the sun, reveling in the cosmopolitan scene. I haven’t seen anyone with a gun so far, which is more than […]

A Window on Your Year Now that we’re rolling with 2013, you might want to have a look at it. In our high voltage TEC group, we start with a retreat and the centre piece of that are the Boards. They’re simple to make. All you need is an 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 or […]

We’re coming into the time when everything slows and everything shifts – the Holidays. If one can get past the materialism that the great machine has infused into these seasons – Black Friday indeed! – there is far greater promise. Rick Eigenbrod just got back from doing the Camino. He didn’t do pilgrimage lite – […]

A Lost Generation? You have to be around it to sense how corrosive it is to the human spirit. We experienced it in Greece. Talking to Maria our server in the Fontana Restaurant at our hotel. “Why would I go to technical school? If I did, it would just cost my parents money and then I […]

Watching a Miracle Skyward I caught just a slice of her as we drove into the Houston airport the other day. The tail was higher than the airport buildings. Big yellow bird insignia – Lufthansa. I’m not sure if any North American airlines have bought the A 380 – just a few of the long […]

The Caravan We’re on a movie jag. Not necessarily the mainstream movies but those Elaine’s discussion leader chooses. A film discussion group under the auspices of the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners supplies the activation. In my life planning work with clients, I say, “If you want to pursue an enthusiasm or keep a commitment […]

There is some human belief that the answer lies beyond. There are questions that cause such yearning. Questions at the root of it all : – where are we going? – how can we heal? – what is our destiny? – what am I here to do? – can I live on? For those troubled […]