Three years ago a small crew of D7ers left the mothership in Abbotsford and settled into their very own outpost on the edge of Vancouver's Yaletown.

When I joined the team I was the fifth member of our Vancouver office. Not long after, we grew to six, then ten, and now on any given day we might have as many as 15 people in our Cambie Street townhouse. It's a sign of exciting times for Domain7, but it's also a recipe for a lot of tripping over each other, taking phone calls in hallways, and scrambling for chairs around the lunch table.

So we are incredibly excited to announce that this Friday, we're moving to our new home in Railtown!

Where is Railtown? you ask!

It's just east of Gastown, and north of Chinatown/Strathcona near the foot of Main. It's an interesting mix of social housing, design studios, independent eateries, and manufacturing facilities. We've got some great neighbours like Union Wood Co., Anchor Guitar Studio, the Vancouver Urban Winery, ...

There is this mysterious, soft, intuitive, abstract part of strategy work that is hard to label and name. The part where a company or person manages to totally rock at something, and still retain this natural air of self-awareness and humility while doing it.

That’s what strategy wants to bottle.

I’d call that “heart.”

Think of a company like Pixar:

They are clearly successful, but they embody their success with such honesty and class that it just feels like they all must be doing what they love. (Granted, that’s an outside perspective; secretly inside the animators’ complex it could be a world of lagging software and corporate hell.)

I see this aspect of “heart” in friends I most admire—people who have managed to bring their whole selves to the game. People who can succeed (or fail), but not at the expense of those around them. People who are busy being happy and doing what they love, not waiting for happiness to happen after they achieve something.

How do you...