I recently read a great book on Abraham Lincoln and it was an excellent illustration of the skills required by leaders in building senior teams for multi-faceted organizations. President Lincoln has been studied in great depth and in this book, Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin tells how Lincoln built his first Cabinet in 1861 [...]

I am very proud of the numerous long-term client relationships we have at Environics Communications. Considering it has been less than 18 years since we opened our doors, we have several clients with 10-years-plus relationships. In most of these cases, one of the original Environics people who pitched and won the account is still involved [...]

A study was released recently by Mercer Consulting with the headline that younger workers are more likely to be thinking about changing jobs even while they express happiness with their current job. According to the US survey findings, workers age 34 and younger are more likely than their older colleagues by as much as 12 [...]

I attended the WebCom 2.0 Conference in Toronto last week. Among several interesting speakers was Jon Husband of Vancouver who referred to the breakdown of institutions and the dynamic flow between knowledge and authority in the Internet age.
This view ties nicely to the new approach we have been developing for how organizations respond to crisis situations. [...]

As the CEO of a medium-sized enterprise, I take note of CEO best practices in business and academic articles as well as with the other CEOs I encounter in my consulting career.
We’ve enjoyed good successes at Environics with annual revenue growth exceeding 100 per cent in some of the early years and a 2010 designation [...]

Last night, at the awards gala of the Toronto Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Environics Communications was named Large Agency of the Year for 2010.
It was also gratifying to win The Bobbie Resnick Philanthropy Award for our charitable work at the same time.
Last month, the Great Place to Work Institute named [...]

We announced today that the four-year-old social media analysis firm, Exvisu, is joining the Environics family to become Nexalogy Environics Inc. The partners, Claude, Michael and Eric, will all be staying and we welcome them as our new colleagues.
Nexalogy Environics offers a diverse range of intelligence services based on data taken from various social media [...]

What causes me to want to blog about work, while at the same time attempting to play with my daughter as she “dances” (actually weird herky-jerky gestures) in her bouncy chair?
Thinking about my child’s future has gotten me reflecting a wee bit about work. Over the weekend I officially turned thirteen years-old at Environics which, from [...]