As many of you know, I have recently been to Poland – again – this time to work on business development. Turns out there is huge interest in, and appetite for, the coaching and training services we provide, particularly in the area of presentation skills. What follows is a little case study in how things go sideways and how they eventually come out alright.

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We have the pleasure of working with a law firm who presents timely topics to groups of clients and associates; in fact, we shoot the presentations and edit them for posting to the firm’s national website, www.stikeman.com.

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I have a confession to make:  I love the Sedins. I believe they are talented hockey players and uncommonly decent human beings.

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I am literally sick to my stomach today after sitting on the couch with my kids last night and watching, in shock and disbelief, as this city’s downtown core was trashed by mindless, cretinous hooligans, emboldened by a slow police presence and by the frenzied exhortations of the tweeting, camera-wielding, snap-happy mob of losers.

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Once again, watching the news, I find myself appalled. In Ontario a young man is dead after a freak accident in his school’s auto shop class. No doubt he had already rented his tux for grad, perhaps arranged for flowers for his date, made plans for the after party and grudgingly agreed to dance with his mom at the end of high school dinner dance. It’s a time when teens all over this continent, and in many other parts of the world, celebrate a rite of passage that resonates for years to come. For Eric Leighton there will be no memories and for his parents this time of year will always be painful rather than bittersweet.

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