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Interview with Don Taylor of Arizona Mining
March 1, 2018

Don Taylor is the recipient of the PDAC’s 2018 Thayer Lindsley Award, for the 2014 discovery of the Taylor lead-zinc-silver deposit in Arizona. Don is the Chief Operating Officer of …

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Crowdsourcing Your Next Mine
March 28, 2017

Will the Uber business model eventually come to mining? It may already be here. We were recently contacted by an “Expert Network” to set up and manage project procurement for …

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Champions’ Lessons from Wimbledon
July 13, 2016

Imagine you have a mentor who just turned 60 years old who has had similar experiences as you thus far in your career. This mentor has been in your industry …

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Details for Procurement Managers in a downturn
March 16, 2016

This article is part of a presentation I made last week at the PDAC 2016 convention titled “Retooling Strategies – Get the most out of your Capital”.  This deeper thinking focuses …

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Procurement

Who – Starting with Success
February 8, 2016

We are always prospecting for ideas to improve our project work and I was pleasantly surprised to discover a diamond in the rough with this book, Who: the A Method …

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What do you mean Procurement?
January 26, 2016

Oscar Wilde struck a very rich vein and found a gold mine for pundits when he wrote "We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language".  …

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Appreciating the Little Things
January 5, 2016

Leading by example is one of the most positive ways to influence people and is the reason I avoid conversations about New Year’s resolutions.  I just "get on with it", …

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A Recent Change
December 14, 2015

Last week’s posting on Effective Change Management was well received and I would like to extend sincere thanks for all the positive comments. That article feels like it was only …

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Effective Change Management
December 7, 2015

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher (c.544-c.483 bc), is credited as the first to say “change is the only constant in life”.  After analyzing a large number of change processes on mining …

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Projects and Creativity Inc.
November 29, 2015

Philosopher Jane McGonigal forged an approach to discovering epic wins and described her methodology as “sneak-up sideways” in the book SuperBetter.   She defines this approach in that happiness is more …

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