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December 22, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Backbone of our global trading world: Shipping

A short, fascinating look into the industry behind 90% of our global transportation system. Journalist Rose George's TEDTalk covers the crew, fuels, piracy, and marine life. Upon reflection, it is surprising how little we ever hear about this ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, Container ship, Indian Ocean, Maritime, Rose George, Shipping, Transportation and Logistics, United States

November 13, 2013 by Tim Ragan

What does your brand really stand for?

One of the initiatives that I have been focused on over the past several months is helping to create and deliver a public offering on "creating your authentic brand", through my business Career Coaching International.  The word choice "authentic" is ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Brand, Business, Google, Marketing and Advertising, Personal Brand, Personal Branding Blog, Social media, Steve Boese

November 10, 2013 by Tim Ragan

For real and lasting change, build in “drip-feeding”

Last weekend, I spent my Sunday facilitating a fairly large not-for-profit board of a national association. My remit was two-fold; first, to help them develop an action plan for a major internal (mandatory) initiative spanning about 10 months, and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Board of directors, Business, Consulting, Management, Nike, Organizational Change, Real Change, Sunday

November 7, 2013 by Tim Ragan

My dream projects and dream collaborators (#1)

After much internal musing, I have decided that I have a lot to gain from "going public", as it were, and clearly declaring my interests in dream projects I would like to be involved in, and the kinds of people that I think might want to collaborate ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Basecamp, Business, Collaborative software, Design, Management, Microsoft Project, Project management, Project manager

November 7, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Reprint: “The Source of organizational dysfunction, revealed!”

I came across this article recently in the online version of strategy+business, which is the magazine published by management consulting firm Booz & Company. The article makes the case that the source of much of the dysfunctional behavior our ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Booz & Company, Business, Christopher Alexander, Design, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management, Management, Organization

May 15, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Want to transform into a high performance business?

I've been thinking about this question a lot lately, as I work to better relate my own "transformation" value proposition into language meaningful and attractive to my clients. I mean, who wouldn't want to own and operate a "high performance ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, business model, Business process, Business Services, Consulting, Management, Manufacturing, Strategic planning

April 19, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Change management? Change required = management

Last evening I sat through a very informative presentation given by a colleague of mine; the topic was on why Canadian industry is suffering from an "innovation gap" (comparatively speaking, based on international ranking systems) and what the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, Canada, Change management, Company, Executive, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Management

April 11, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Are you a reluctant change agent?

A few days ago I was in Maryland visiting with some good friends. We had a thoughtful discussion about "change", in which they suggested that most people are forced through circumstances to deal with all kinds of change. Family issues. Career ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, Change Agent, Consulting, Environment, Management, Organizational Change

March 18, 2013 by Tim Ragan

What makes an effective change agent?

I've been mulling this question over for some time now, partly as (one of many) ways of continually improving my own articulation of my value proposition and brand as a "change guy".  Here's my short list for how one should approach a potential ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, Change management, Conversation, Darwinism, Management, Organizational Change, Social group, Solution

March 18, 2013 by Tim Ragan

Weighing in on the “unpaid internship” debate

On a local radio call-in talk show today,  the subject was "unpaid internships". It's been in the news a lot recently, and it seems to me that a lot of fairly unscrupulous companies are taking advantage of getting access to free labour under the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Transforming yourself Tagged With: Business, career, Company, Employment, Entry Level and Internships, Internship, job search, Ontario

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