In case you missed the headlines, I rocked my first bonspiel this weekend.

Good curling and good projects share one distinct characteristic — trust. Like raises, take outs, double take-outs, run backs and peels, projects and campaigns require an unbreakable trust amongst teammates. In curling the skip calls the shot and tells the sweepers whether or not the rock is on line. The sweepers have to gauge weight and communicate that to the skip, the thrower has to release the rock cleanly and with good weight. Division in a team can kill you.

Great project teams include the creative side, the client services perspective, accounting and the client. If creative can't trust client services or accounting can't trust creative, you're in trouble. If the client loses trust at any point  we can all pack our brooms and sliders away for good.

The crew I curl with hails from what they and my mother call god's country, a little place named Cape Breton. I'm the fourth on a team of three brothers and it can get interesting. We've lost more ends than we've won but we're learning. I've had the pleasure to be on the aasman team for eight months and i'm learning every day how important it is to lean on a team, especially when the going gets haaaaaard.