Kevin Graham
Note to a Grade 9 student on the first day
So… you've arrived! You're now officially part of the big game. What happens next is entirely up to you. It really is! Grade 9 can be...
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Kevin Graham
- Jun 12, 2013
- 9 min
Who will govern?
Risk is a board game I played regularly many moons ago. The objective of the game, in short, is world domination. It's a game of...
Kevin Graham
- Jun 11, 2013
- 2 min
Only a day away
My five siblings and their spouses have long considered me a few bricks short of a load. I'd like to report that they're too kind to say...
Kevin Graham
- May 7, 2013
- 2 min
If I have to explain...
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,...
Kevin Graham
- Feb 27, 2013
- 17 min
Engagement – lesson of the century
What follows is the text of a presentation I made last October to a group of Heads at a large-schools conference in Virginia Beach,...
Kevin Graham
- Jan 2, 2013
- 16 min
Numbers don't lie…
Don't blame numbers. It's not their fault. Numbers don't lie… put enough of them in the hands of the wrong people, though, and they can...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 22, 2012
- 9 min
Money is time
I woke up last night with unusual clarity in recall of a dream. No dancing sugar plums, I promise. Be warned, though. This one's out...
Kevin Graham
- Dec 7, 2012
- 6 min
The journey is the thing
Heading home from a journey to Hogtown earlier this week, my wife and I listened to a CBC interview with Oliver Burkeman, author of the...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 12, 2012
- 4 min
Of goblins and short cuts
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 29, 2012
- 7 min
Fallen leaves…
The National Hockey League is at risk of losing the full season, owing to a player lockout by the owners. As Jimmy Buffett once said...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 2, 2012
- 8 min
King of the Hill
For me as a Canadian kid, one of the few redeeming elements of Winter was the gigantic hill of snow created at our school by snow plows....
Kevin Graham
- Sep 24, 2012
- 6 min
Hormone Highway… navigating Grade 8
Dear Mr. Dixon, The 'takeaways' from my work are many. I could talk all day about what I've learned from conducting surveys… and do so...
Kevin Graham
- Aug 31, 2012
- 7 min
Victim → Survivor → Thriver
Disclosure: This is a bit of a walk around the barn. Pour yourself a coffee… It's interesting (to me, anyway) how we receive new...
Kevin Graham
- Jul 4, 2012
- 6 min
Let the scum burn!
A couple of years ago, my wife and daughter and I meandered across British Columbia by the voice of a GyPSy. GyPSy is a portable tour...
Kevin Graham
- Jun 25, 2012
- 8 min
"Boy… have I got pictures!"
At breakfast one day last week, our twelve year old announced rather sheepishly that she was a little concerned about an upcoming quiz in...
Kevin Graham
- Mar 29, 2012
- 7 min
Or maybe I'm suffering from second-hand toke...
Thirty-six years ago, light years before the duffel bag met the wheel, I heaved mine over a shoulder and trudged off to explore the world...
Kevin Graham
- Mar 1, 2012
- 6 min
All women are beautiful...
About four weeks ago, I was having dinner with a good friend at a wonderful Italian restaurant in Vancouver. Conversation being what it...
Kevin Graham
- Feb 28, 2012
- 4 min
The jury is… without me!
"Are you juror 2776?" "Yes, Your Honour." "You're a consultant?" "Yes, Your Honour, self-employed." "And you travel internationally in...
Kevin Graham
- Jan 19, 2012
- 3 min
I like a good mystery
I don't read fiction. The experience was spoiled for me 30 years ago when, as an English major, I was tasked with dissecting and...
Kevin Graham
- Jan 13, 2012
- 4 min
Shawn Ryan says YES YOU CAN!
If you did not attend the awards dinner at last year's Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, you may...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 17, 2011
- 6 min
Steve Jobs: Obsessed… or possessed?
Walter Isaacson Late last night, I finished reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs. Let me cut to the finish line right...
Kevin Graham
- Nov 5, 2011
- 2 min
The Rare Find – spotting exceptional talent before everyone else
George Anders I picked up two books on Thursday evening. The first, by George Anders, is a good read. Started it yesterday and was...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 29, 2011
- 5 min
Desperadoes and thieves
“The desperadoes and thieves of today were school boys ten years ago, and if society is ever to find complete protection against such...
Kevin Graham
- Oct 17, 2011
- 2 min
Like silent raindrops fell...
Last Friday, over breakfast, my wife shared with me an amusing and insightful story. Seems a group of people were walking home late one...
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