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Posted in freebies or nearly on Dec 17th, 2008
Freebie #1: Seth Godin’s “Tribes” is available to download from audible.com. I’m an audible subscriber – have been for a couple years now – and give them two big thumbs up (in other words, you can feel comfortable downloading – they’re legit). You may need to register with them. I doubt they’ll annoy you with [...]
Posted in praxis on Dec 15th, 2008
I’m a history major. BComm students and well-meaning (perhaps) working people pooh-pooh’d this course selection.
What use is it in the real world? they’d inquire, implying I’d never make a go of it unless I joined the MBA crowd.
Fifteen years out of university, with experience as an entrepreneur, as an employee in small business, and in [...]
Posted in case study on Dec 14th, 2008
PhotoCredit: Joannao
It doesn’t happen often, but from time to time my clients come to me not because they spend too much, but because they absolutely can’t bear to spend a dime, and it’s driving them nuts (and likely those around them!). This expresses itself in at least 3 different ways:
1. Some clients find they are having to [...]
Posted in econ 101 on Dec 9th, 2008
Had coffee this am with a new twitterpal and blogger, Mike. As a former financial-industry-insider, like me, he had some things to say about our current affairs. He made this provocative comment: Capitalism as we know it is something that knows it’s dying, so it threw itself under a bus – and now we’re trying [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2008
Posted in econ 101 on Dec 4th, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Canadians’ blood should be running a little cold today.
Economic consideration trumped democracy. I suppose this should not be too surprising, given our collective disengagement with our political process, and given that notions of citizenship, and the attendant rights and responsibilities, seem to have been reduced to residing and consuming in Canada.
What we seem [...]
Posted in freebies or nearly on Dec 3rd, 2008
Greetings Vancouver readers and visitors! It’s a dark, closed-in time of the year, but there are loads of spirit-lifting activities that are free or inexpensive, as we approach Christmas.
Here are a few:
1. The Rogers Santa Clause Parade is this Sunday, 1pm Cost: free
2. The Vancouver Chamber Choir is presenting Handel’s Messiah Dec. 12th and 13th. [...]
Posted in econ 101 on Dec 2nd, 2008
The Dean of York University’s School of Business called it bang-on in a recent issue of the National Post.
The fundamental reason we’re experiencing a financial meltdown, he says, is we abandoned this notion:
Enterprises earn profits through the goods and services it generates, not the imagined value of its shares.
It is the primary responsibility of corporate [...]
