What drives safety culture on a mine site?
“Safety culture is set by what the supervisor tolerates on a Tuesday afternoon, not by the poster in the lunchroom.”
Mine operations manager · Running Crews Under Pressure · 2:00
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A taste of what the archive answers. Each card shows one cited quote and the video it comes from, queued to the moment it was said.
Resource industry
Where should resource R&D money go first?
“Put the R&D dollar where the bottleneck is — usually that's processing, not exploration.”
Forestry & energy executive · R&D in Canada's Resource Sector · 10:00
How do remote sites keep infrastructure running?
“When the nearest part is a week away by barge, maintenance planning becomes your whole strategy.”
Site infrastructure lead · Infrastructure at the Edge · 18:20
Private industry
What's the biggest hiring mistake owners make?
“We hired for the résumé and fired for the attitude. Now we hire for the attitude.”
Business owner · Scaling a Family Business · 5:00
How do companies survive a downturn?
“Cash is oxygen. In a downturn the companies that make it are the ones that knew their burn rate to the week.”
Executive · Lessons from Two Recessions · 15:00
When is the right time to scale operations?
“Scale the process before you scale the headcount, or you just multiply the mess.”
Operations director · Growing Without Breaking · 25:00
College & education
How do we fix the apprenticeship pipeline?
“There is a welding and pipefitting deficit across the yards. That is a decade-long training pipeline.”
Multiple speakers · Panel: Skilled Trades Deficit in the Shipbuilding Supply Chain · 48:10
What makes a trades instructor effective?
“Students remember the instructor who let them fail safely on the bench before they failed on the job.”
Trades instructor · Training Competent People · 7:30
How should colleges partner with industry?
“Industry has to be in the room when the curriculum is written, not invited to the graduation.”
College dean · Colleges and Industry Partnership · 21:40
Law enforcement
What makes good police leadership?
“Leadership in policing is earned on the worst night of someone's life, not in the promotion board.”
Retired police chief · Leading a Modern Police Service · 3:20
How should policy and tactics connect?
“Policy written without the frontline in the room becomes a tactic nobody can actually execute.”
Government leader · Policy Meets the Street · 13:20
How do services plan for major events?
“Planning is the cheap part. The expensive part is discovering in the moment that you didn't.”
Operations planner · Planning for Major Events · 23:20
Defence
Why is defence procurement so slow?
“You can announce the money, but you cannot announce the people who know how to spend it well.”
Peter MacKay · Peter MacKay — Executive Advisor, Deloitte LLP · 4:06
What limits rebuilding the Armed Forces?
“We are short thousands of trained members. Every capability plan on paper assumes a force we do not currently have.”
Gen (ret'd) Wayne Eyre · Recruiting Crisis: Rebuilding the Armed Forces · 27:00
Where does NORAD modernization stand?
“The Arctic is no longer a buffer. It is the front door, and the door is open.”
VAdm (ret'd) Angus Topshee · Arctic Sovereignty and the NORAD Modernization Gap · 9:00