Courses, conferences, and coaching are only useful if they intentionally and demonstrably increase the flow of value in your organization. If you need a birdhouse, build one. Studying carpentry and sketching designs mean nothing without action. Robins can't nest in your plans.

Fellow members of the business community, it is clear that "our part to invest" must be to invest our hearts and minds in solving the productivity crisis, one leader and one business at a time. Business leaders need to learn how to get outside of their day-to-day operations and think of their business as a system, to then identify the barriers to creating more value. By focusing on our business’ unique challenges and unique drivers, we can step up, scale up and level up Canada's economic productivity to an extent never seen before.