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For the past fifty years our business schools have been working on a flawed model. We have focused on producing executives for large corporations; only recently have we introduced enthusiasm for entrepreneurship to our MBA programs. However we live in … Continue reading →

Our economy can best be characterized as fast and furious. The combination of globalization and the technological revolution ensure that the one constant in our economic lives is change. This is an environment well suited for entrepreneurs who by definition … Continue reading →

There are many people who believe that you can’t teach entrepreneurship. They believe it is either inherent or a skill that has to evolve from experience. There is no doubt that as in any other skillset there are people who … Continue reading →

One of the premises in the introduction of my new book Everyday Entrepreneur is that I wrote it to encourage entrepreneurs of every stripe across the spectrum. Since the high tech entrepreneurs have been getting the lion’s share of the … Continue reading →

We are entering an increasing – no pun intended- age where size is dominant. Big Business, Big Government, Big Unions, Big Data and most damning of all “Too Big To Fail”. We have sacrificed the principles of micro economics such … Continue reading →

Indisputable: We live in a global work space – an economy where timing is everything and competition comes from every which direction, blindsiding us, especially where Tech is concerned. There is tremendous pressure to be first out to fill a … Continue reading →

Thursday I attended the Demo Camp at the Creative Destructive Lab at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The Lab is focused on converting innovation to entrepreneurship selecting concepts with merit and guiding the founders through … Continue reading →

Quite a number of my friends are professionals. Often they let me know how lucky I’ve been to own and operate companies with employees who keep churning out results even when I am at the cottage or on the golf … Continue reading →

Entrepreneurship rests firmly on opportunity. But in the face of a rapidly changing global economy there is an overwhelming increase in entrepreneurship of necessity. Seniors need to extend their careers. Youth are struggling to launch theirs. Women are looking for … Continue reading →

Much as we would like to, we never really love our parents as much as we do our children. Your business is exactly like a child. In the early or startup years it will depend completely upon you, looking to … Continue reading →