Who Let The Bugs Out - Episode Four - What Termites Can Teach Organizations About Building Things That Last

Uncategorized Feb 01, 2026

🐜 Who Let the Bugs Out?

Episode Four: What Termites Can Teach Organizations About Building Things That Last

Termites don’t look impressive.

They’re quiet.
They’re hidden.
And most of the time, you don’t even know they’re there…

Until suddenly, everything collapses.

Sound familiar?


🏗️ The Termite Advantage: Builders, Not Performers

Termites don’t build for attention.
They build for function.

Some termite mounds:

  • Regulate temperature

  • Control humidity

  • Ventilate air

  • Survive floods, heat, and storms

No branding team.
No leadership slogans.
Just brilliant design.


🧱 Lesson #1: Infrastructure Matters More Than Inspiration

Organizations love:

  • Vision statements

  • Motivational speeches

  • Big announcements

But termites remind us:
👉 If the foundation is weak, none of that matters.

Culture.
Systems.
Decision-making pathways.

If those are broken, performance won’t save you.


🔁 Lesson #2: Slow, Steady, and Relentless Wins

Termites don’t rush....

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Who Let The Bugs Out - Episode Three: Ants - The Original High-Performance Teams

Uncategorized Jan 25, 2026

Ants are everywhere.

On sidewalks.
In forests.
In your kitchen—right when you thought you’d sealed everything properly.

And yet, somehow, organizations still underestimate them.

Big mistake.

Ants have been around for over 100 million years, and by weight alone, they make up a significant portion of the planet’s biomass.

Translation?
They’re not small.
They’re numerous.

🐜 The Ant Organization: No Ego. No Excuses.

An ant colony functions without:

  • Job titles

  • Performance reviews

  • Motivational posters

And still manages to:

  • Build massive structures

  • Defend itself

  • Adapt to disasters

  • Feed millions

No one’s asking,
“Who’s in charge here?”

They just get to work.


🧭 Lesson #1: Purpose Beats Position

Ants don’t care who does the work—
they care that the work gets done.

If a tunnel collapses, ants don’t hold a meeting.
They start rebuilding.

Compare that to organizations where:

  • Decisions stall

  • Ownership is unclear

  • Everyone’s waiting fo...

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Who Let The Bugs Out - Episode Two - What Bees Can Teach Organizations...

Uncategorized Jan 17, 2026

🐝 Who Let the Bugs Out?

Episode Two: What Bees Can Teach Organizations About Leadership, Purpose, and Actually Working Together

Let’s talk about bees.

Not the cute cartooney kind.
Not the “Oh look, nature is so adorable” kind.

But about the insects responsible for pollinating roughly one-third of the food we eat!

No pressure.

Meanwhile, organizations struggle to get:

  • Teams aligned

  • People talking to each other

  • Meetings to end on time

Yet bees?
They’ve been running high-performance organizations for millions of years.

  •  Without mission or vision statements.
  • Without PowerPoint.
  • Without retreats.

🐝 The Hive: A Masterclass in Organization

A beehive isn’t chaos.

It’s;

  • 🎯 Clear purpose

  • 🔁 Constant communication

  • 🤝 Deep interdependence

Every bee knows why it exists and how its role connects to the whole.

No one asks,
“Is this really my job?”


👑 Lesson #1: The Queen Is Not the Boss

Let’s clear something up.

The queen bee is not a micromana...

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Who Let The Bugs Out - The Leadership Lessons We've Been Ignoring - Episode One

Uncategorized Jan 10, 2026

Let’s get something straight right off the bat...

Organizations?
They’re fragile.

📉 Most don’t last.
📆 Very few survive beyond a couple of generations.

According to a report by Innosight in 2020, the average lifespan of a company on the S&P 500 was 21 years...You can barely drink by then... Meanwhile…

🪲 Insects have been here for 300 million years.

Let that sink in.


🐞 The Original Organizational Designers

While organizations are busy reinventing themselves every five years, insects have been quietly mastering:

  • Adaptability

  • Efficiency

  • Environmental awareness

  • Survival under brutal conditions

There are more species of insects than all other animals combined.
That’s not luck—that’s good design.

So the question becomes…

👉 What if organizations stopped only studying other organizations… and started studying bugs?


🦗 Welcome to the “Bug Lessons for Business” Series

In this series, I take a look at insects that have stood the test of time and ask:

  • What ...

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Happy New Year. Happy New You. Again?

Uncategorized Jan 04, 2026

🎉 Ah Yes… New Year, New You (Again?)

It seems to be a very Western thing:
When the New Year rolls around, we pause, reflect, and then try to manifest those reflections into concrete goals we’re convinced we’ll absolutely crush this time.

We go all in.
🥗 This is the year of salads.
🏋️ This is the year of gym passes.
🚫 This is the year we swear off things (and people) that don’t “serve us.”
😇 This is the year we’ll be kinder, more patient, more generous, more evolved humans.

And you know what?
For the most part, we’re deeply committed to these goals.

For about…
⏳ 15 to 30 days.

Then something happens.


😬 The Sneaky Pull of the Status Quo

Slowly—almost imperceptibly—we slide back into the way things were.

Not because the old way was great.
Not because we loved it.

But because…
➡️ it was familiar
➡️ it was comfortable enough
➡️ and honestly, it required less effort

Change is work.
Real work.

And this is where most goal-setting conversations fall apart.


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When The New Year Walked Slowly Across The Road

Uncategorized Dec 27, 2025

🕯️ A New Year’s Tradition (That Had Nothing to Do With Champagne)

For years, my wife and I rang in New Year’s Eve in Waterton Lakes National Park, tucked away in one of the park’s cookhouses, pretending we were gourmet chefs in the middle of nowhere...

We’d snowshoe or wander the trails in the afternoon, cheeks red, lungs full of mountain air, and then spend the evening assembling a well-thought-out meal—planned days in advance like it was a competitive sport.

Candles? Of course.
Music? Absolutely.
Outdoor fire? If our fingers weren’t going to freeze off.

Midnight?
Rarely made it.
Didn’t care.

It was warm. It was slow. It was ours. And it was one of those traditions you don’t realize is shaping you until it’s gone.


🌫️ The Night Everything Disappeared

Then came that New Year’s Eve.

Thick fog. The kind that swallows headlights and messes with your sense of direction. Leaving the park, we crawled along, white-knuckled and quiet, when suddenly—right near the gates—something appea...

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The Spirit of Christmas

Uncategorized Dec 21, 2025

🎄 I Was 13 When Christmas Found Me

I was 13 years old when my brother Eddie invited me to his girlfriend’s house to celebrate Christmas.

Now, just so you know — I didn’t really do Christmas back then. Not my religion...
To me, Christmas was mostly about one thing: time off school. And let’s be honest, at 13, that’s a perfectly acceptable life philosophy.

So when Eddie said, “You wanna come to my girlfriend’s place for Christmas?” I figured, Sure. Free food. Why not?

Little did I know… I was about to get a front-row seat to something much bigger.


🎶 A House Full of Noise, Food, and Life

From the moment I walked in, I knew I was somewhere I had never been before.

This was a big Quebecois family — the kind where “quiet” simply isn’t part of the vocabulary.
There was live music playing, people talking over each other in two languages, kids running around, and the kind of smells coming from the kitchen that make you instantly hungry…even if you just ate.

And here’s the thing — nobo...

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Bah, Humbug? Or...Something Better...

Uncategorized Dec 14, 2025

🎄 Bah, Humbug??? Or… Something Better?

Let me start with a confession.

👉 My current wife, Riesah, and I don’t celebrate Christmas.
But my ex-wife and I did. And for the most part, it was pretty good.

Except…for the annual trek across the mountains to spend Christmas with her family.
You know the one — icy roads, packed car, emotional expectations riding shotgun.

And that’s where today’s story begins...


🍽️ A Christmas Dinner… Without Turkey

The very first night I met her extended family was Christmas dinner.

Picture this:

  • A beautifully decorated table

  • About a dozen people squeezed in

  • All the classic holiday sides you can imagine

And right in the centre…

👉 A massive ham.

No turkey.

I leaned over and whispered something to my ex.

She did not whisper back.

“Ham?! Herky doesn’t eat ham — he’s Jewish!”

😳😳😳


😬 When Silence Is Louder Than Christmas Carols

The look on her aunt’s face?

Priceless.

Pure horror. Deep embarrassment. Full-on internal panic....

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Mumbling: How It's Hurting Your Business (More Than You Think)

Uncategorized Dec 07, 2025

🎤 Mumbling: How It’s Hurting Your Business (More Than You Think)

According to Voice Empowerment, mumbling is one of the top five most annoying vocal habits that humans exhibit.
Well, it’s not just annoying…
It’s costing your organization time, money, and maybe even your sanity.

Overly dramatic? Stay with me.


🤫 “Is It My Hearing… or Are People Actually Mumbling?”

For a while, I thought maybe I was the problem. Age. Hearing. Loud rock concerts from my youth. You know, the usual suspects.

But then I actually started paying attention…
And no—it's not me.
They. Are. MUMBLING.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it—like the “pink Volkswagen” phenomenon. Suddenly you’re surrounded by mumblers. They’re in meetings, on your team, at the grocery store, probably talking to you right now.


🧠 Why People Mumble (Besides Actual Speech Impediments)

1️⃣ Lack of Confidence

Some people mumble because they don’t want to be heard.
Why?
Because they’re not confident in what they’re saying.
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Sale Today Only

Uncategorized Nov 30, 2025

🏷️ “Sale Today Only!”

And the crippling fallout from "the little white lie"

You’ve seen the signs.


“SALE—TODAY ONLY!”
Then you drive by tomorrow… and the next day… and apparently “today” has been happening since 2013.

There’s a place in small-town B.C. I pass all the time. Big sign: Garage Sale Today! They’ve been “today-only-ing” people for over a decade. At this point I’m convinced even the squirrels know it’s a scam.

And you know exactly why they do it.


👉 Make us believe the deal is now-or-never.
👉 Trigger our FOMO.
👉 Get us through the door.
👉 Cross their fingers and hope we buy a lamp shaped like a dragon...

🤥 Let’s Call It What It Is: A Lie

I wrote this piece a while back, from Mexico, where “Sale Today Señor!” is practically a national sport. Even when it’s obvious the sale has lasted longer than most Netflix series, we go in anyway… and occasionally buy something.

But here’s the kicker:
If we keep rewarding the behaviour, why would anyone stop?

More importantly…
Wha...

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