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We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and we wish you a very happy new year! As we return from our holiday break, it seems appropriate to talk about a phenomenon that concerns a very large portion of the population: New Year’s resolutions. We all have been there (and most of us still do it every year): January 1st hits, we get a sense of new and renew, and we have the overwhelming desire to hit the refresh button and make a lasting change to better our lives. When that happens, we...

When I was growing up in France, there was a commercial for a brand of ice cream and its slogan went something like “Everything passes, everything ends, but our cravings for ice cream!”. Well, cravings for ice cream come and go, but the ultimate truth is that good or bad, all situations are temporary. What that means is that when we feel stuck, it is very important to understand that it is temporary and that our present always forges our future. When a company experiences a downturn in...

When building and growing a business, or even with our daily interactions and whereabouts, one quality is key to develop: the art of listening. Very often, we hear people say or we say ourselves “I am listening”, only to realize later on that whatever was said was only heard but not understood, because the other person was not listening at all. There are different levels of listening. The first level represents that person who you are telling a story to and who immediately says, “Oh I know...