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WD-40 Strives to Create Positive Garry Ridge
Lasting Memories

Company deliberately shifts to organizational democracy

Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company, says the most special aspect of being a democratic workplace is that people are truly valued. Read More  

Changing the Education Paradigm from the Industrial to Democratic Era

Conversations need to focus on the outcomes we want for our children: Sam ChaltainChaltain

Sam Chaltain, writer and education activist, says when it comes to an education paradigm shift what's needed is a move from the industrial era of schooling towards a not-yet-realized democratic era model of schools. Read More 

How Being Democratic Aligns With Servant Leadership

WD-40 CEO Garry Ridge shares how the two leadership approaches complement one another

Garry Ridge says one of the greatest rewards a leader can receive is to see others become better than they were when the leader first touched them.  

 

Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company, says when things are going right great leaders look out, and when things are going wrong they look in. Read More 

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The World We Want to See    

A democratically-elected

and endorsed team here at Axiom News recently published some work it spent about 10 months mulling over, and for good reason as the team called itself The Big Picture. 

 

Coming out of our Strategy Summit last August, a high priority was defining our (social) mission, vision and values, as well as our service. 

 

Five of us took on this task, meeting every other week for sometimes lengthy and philosophical discussions around all sorts of ideas, ideals and possibilities. Read More 

Stories At Work

 

Power in Professional Storytelling

Stories binding stakeholders in long-term care organization

The strength of an organization is the sum of all parts, and when it comes to Schlegel Villages, which is comprised of 11 long-term care and retirement residences spread across southern Ontario, the parts cover a wide range of stakeholders.

 

There are stories that bind them all.

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