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A concept from a Harvard Business Review article transformed a stagnant professional services firm. The same logic — put the people who do the work first, and growth follows — may be exactly what Nova Scotia’s economic policy has been missing. By Bernard F. Miller KC, ICD.D | Contributing to A Better Place Sometime around 2009, I was managing partner of a law...
An analysis of public service employment trends: 2010-23 By Peter Nicholson Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister in 2015 almost 100 thousand (net) new employees have been added to the federal public service, an increase of nearly 40% in eight years. The growth in 2023 alone numbered some 21,000 or 6.3%.[1] The significant increase has begun to attract media attention, notably a recent...
By Dr. Peter Nicholson – Opening Statement 5 February 2024 Let me begin by thanking the Committee for providing this forum to address the potential for massive offshore renewable energy development off our Atlantic coast, a scale of opportunity that has been greatly underestimated. Realization of the opportunity will depend on many factors, but one essential precondition is an appropriate...
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