Leadership

Geoff Ryan is a Research Fellow with Cardus. He is also a Major in The Salvation Army, continuing a family tradition that goes back four generations. Following a year-long assignment in the First Nations village of Gitwinksihlkw in Northern British Columbia, Geoff and his wife Sandra were appointed as members of a six-person team sent to reopen the...

Leadership Lessons from Vimy Ridge

April 9, 1917—Canadian troops lead a critical Allied attack on a formidable German stronghold, capturing the hill and shatterring the enemy line in spectacular fashion. Thoughtful and thorough strategy, courageous and well-trained soldiers, and the skillful leadership of heroes like General Sir Arthur Currie are directly credited for the success. think...

Social Architecture

Recorded live at the Ottawa, Ontario relaunch of Cardus—October 16, 2008. Civic, social, cultural and economic flourishing requires a new and different arrangement of social institutions. The last two generations have increasingly built an undifferentiated society—meaning, simply, we naturally default to fewer and fewer institutions to solve...

Milton Friesen

Milton Friesen, Director of Operations at Cardus, is very interested in exploring and developing organizational practices that will contribute to more effective institutions. He has invested leadership and research energy in helping organizations understand how to combine knowledge and practice to achieve their goals. Remarkable organizations invest...