Archive for July, 2009
Deep question for today, what is the purpose of this blog? Why do I spend time writing every night? You know it is for me and me only, I am grateful a number of people find my writing interesting however I am writing for an audience of one. Me!
When I am exhausted and ready to [...]
I have been stewing this post in my head for a couple of days. What are you reading? At our Calgary Entrepreneur Meetup breakfast on Tuesday I asked this question of the 2o or so business professionals who gathered for fellowship and networking, what are you reading?
As I look around my home office, I see [...]
Over the past few weeks I have been helping a U of C student with her thesis on blogging and the impact blogging has socially in today’s world. However, my lesson came from an unexpected faculty at the University on Tuesday. Not the Haskayne School of Business, or a science faculty. My lesson today was [...]
For many years I have been a strong supporter of working with those in your community sometimes these people are also your competitors. I get some pretty strange looks from those who do not understand the concept of working with everyone, for the greater good of the community.
Last week, the Calgary Entrepreneurs Club met up [...]
Hands down, the best weekend in a long time for me.
Nothing overly special with the exception of my good friend Rene Sloos’ birthday celebration on Saturday night where a number of us from Bulletproof joined Rene with friends and family celebrate his 46th birthday. Congrats Rene…remarkable I am still 6 years younger than you after all [...]
Has Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, stuck his neck out? The Canadian newspapers are a buzz this morning over the Bank of Canada’s announcement stating the “recession is over”. Were we in a recession? Sure sales are down, manufacturing industry is feeling the pinch and the oil patch is skirting low commodity prices. [...]