The Four Agreements

By Dean Whittaker Would you like to change your life forever? Maybe, or maybe not, but if you follow the following four agreements it will certainly have an impact. In Don Miguel Ruiz’s book, The Four Agreements, he lays out four simple rules by which to live...

The Talent Wars

By Dean Whittaker Three of the presenters at the recent CoreNet Conference in Atlanta used the term “The Talent Wars” to refer to the struggle companies are beginning to feel in meeting their staffing needs. Finding, Getting and Keeping Talent was the theme of the...

Competing Through Innovation

By Dean Whittaker As our communities become more global in their perspective, we find that competing through innovation becomes the key to survival of many of our companies. “The Rise of the Creative Class” and “Live first, Work Second” are two books that tout the...

On Death and Dying

By Dean Whittaker None of us wants to think about death or dying. We pretend that we are immortal and in some ways, we are. Last week I sat with a friend of thirty years as he lay in his bed at home receiving Hospice care after a long illness. We talked about his life...