Monthly Archives: January 2016

I’ve always wanted to get more kids into arenas and stadia. You know why? Cuz they add amazing energy to any building. But tickets are getting so expensive that families just can’t go, or at least not very often. So I thought: Why not steal an idea from the Academy Awards and use seat-fillers? What […]

And Google My Business Ontario is one of the friendliest jurisdictions in which to start a business. You can search and register a business name online (for about $61, and that’s in Canadian pesos, err, dollars not USD). When you register a business name like “My Great Consulting Group” or “Stupendous Student Window Washing”  or “Coaching Collective” or […]

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die,”  Roy Batty’s final words at the end of Blade Runner. Roy (played by […]

We have in Ottawa a BIA (Business Improvement Area) focused on improving the Carp Road corridor. It’s an important stretch of road connecting the fast growing suburb of Stittsville and the historic Village of Carp. It is a mostly rural area but there are municipal services at both ends but not along much of the […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4RO9UDzIcI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=187] That’s the Only Way I Know Whether you like country music or not, you have to admit it’s probably the best format through which to tell stories. Here’re the lyrics: Well I grew up in one of them old farm towns Where they hit it hard till the sun goes down Nobody really […]

The Telfer School of Management’s professor Barbara Orser assisted by Luc Lalande has asked me to give one last lecture in 2016. I tried to make it both fun and informative. You can watch the video of the lecture below. It is also available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/GqqdLeT25us Here is the slidedeck I used, https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvo3187hnzr3397/firestone-legacy-lecture.pptx?dl=0 Here’s […]