While Zinedine Zidane may have found himself in a controversial situation against Marco Materazzi in 2006, he certainly has risen from that 10-year old somberness to now be the coach for the Real Madrid. Not bad. Granted, his fame, experience, path and notoriety have certainly contributed…
Following a rather short campaign, Canada just recently switched Prime Minister and it made the world look twice. From outside of our borders, Justin Trudeau certainly seems young and his election is still stirring multiple reactions. From within the country, thanks to social media, these elections…
First things first: I am back. Back from a long hiatus, mainly due to work engagements, and selfishly due to a basic and primal need to catch up on life: from the boring to the glamourous, and the commitment to attend every detail of it….
Yes, it is about life and all the endless learning episodes thrown at us, disrupting a form of a routine often taken for granted and yet definitely confirmed as fragile as a hatching baby bird. It is a mix of Charlie Hebdo, the loss of…
Crossing the border had never been an issue ever since I had become a Canuck (I will pass on some past chapters of being “just” a Frog and being systematically questioned about the purpose of my trip down South), and I thought I was prepared…
Planning events is a thing I do: without assuming anything (it has proved to lead to relative disasters), I plan, forecast, manage, amend, rewrite, negotiate, suggest, coordinate and implement project phases, define milestones and deliver as per my client’s desiderata. Pretty basic. What is less…
38,000 feet in the air, watching the snow-capped mountains through the window: I am on my way home for a short time, coming back from a business meeting in another part of the continent, in the middle of other beautiful mountains. The captain invited us,…
Hoping the signs of summer actually settle for longer than two days (I know, we are still in the middle of spring in the Northern hemisphere), I already have set my mind on wearing flip-flops or sandals as much as possible. The funny detail these…
Yes, we can talk about meditation, deep breath, yoga and other East-inspired practices to calm down and get through any potentially perceived tense situation. Like anything else, it takes repetition, some kind of a process, to reach a certain level of mastery. My years of…
As we just “celebrated” the 20th. anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the logistics function within the humanitarian field is resonating louder and louder these days. It draws some politician’s attention, definitely some journalists’ too, and it touches people: the ones being assisted in the potential…