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A Whole New Mind
While on my trip to Halifax over the Labour Day long weekend last year I had an opportunity to sit down and read Dan Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind. I had met Dan before at a Rotman Business School … Continue reading
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Useful Heuristics–80/20 rule, Rule of 72, and 150
Three practical rules anyone could benefit from are the 80/20 rule, the rule of 72 and the rule of 150. Alone or together these rules provide an easy way to make better business decisions. The 80/20 rule was developed by … Continue reading
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Find out if You will live past 100
Scientists have made a break through in gene research that can predict now with 77% accuracy if you will live past 100. Most of us, if we exercise watch what we eat and take care of ourselves can live to … Continue reading
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Have Your Lawyers Write the Contract
In his book, Get Smarter, Canadian billionaire, Seymour Schulich, the benefactor of the York Business School provides over 30 life and business lessons. The book is targeted to the 20-40 year olds, however anyone can benefit from reading it. One … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Billionaire, Employee Contracts, Get Smarter, Seymour Shulich
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Want to be a billionaire?
Start a company and and you must be a type E, for entrepreneur. Look at the list of billionaires in Canada and you quickly realize they or their families own a company. Canada saw 25 billionaires ranked in Forbes’ annual … Continue reading
Watching Porn at Work? Stop Immediately!
If you use your company’s PDA such as a Blackberry, laptop, desktop or any other device for other than work purposes you may be fired. It is no secret, and it is made explicit in company policies that every single … Continue reading
Will you live to be 114 years old?
Last month in mid February John Babcock passed away at the age of 109. He was the last surviving veteran from World War One. I am astounded when I hear some of us can live to be centenarians. As we … Continue reading
Hedge Funds are Lethal for your Financial Health
Risk is supposed to equal return. However, as U of T found out this past year this not necessarily the case. University of Toronto Asset Management responsible for managing the institutions money realized a $1.5 Billion loss in a single … Continue reading
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Tagged Financial Investing, hedge funds, Michael Edesses, The Big Investment Lie, U of T investing
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