Entrepreneurship
Top 7 was a team effort!
PHEW! We made it! It was quite the process. While it was certainly a shot in the arm to see Ottawa chosen as one of the Smart21 by the Intelligent Community Forum it did instil a bit of fear in me because the next round of applications for Top7 was apparently the hardest part – the really [...]
It’s all about the chemistry according to Pat DiPietro at this morning’s TEB
Taking questions from a somewhat surprised audience before he began his presentation, Pat DiPietro, Managing General Partner of Vengrowth Capital Partners, aimed to set the stage for his talk and ensure that he was speaking about what the audience wanted to hear. That was clever but putting Mary, a local high school student who was there [...]
Pyramids, Not Ladders
For as long as I can remember, I have always had keen interests in an eclectic mix of areas from fashion to construction, event planning to medicine. If I liked it, I just appended it to the growing pile of things that I had an interest in. As a young child I was exposed to [...]
Taking Initiative
Initiative is universal and intrinsic, it is something that can’t really be fulfilled unless it truly comes from within. So if we all have it, why don’t we all take advantage of it?
Why is it that some of us need that ‘someone else’ to push us and/or keep us motivated while others will attempt to [...]
Digital Natives Driving Freeconomics
When I was in elementary school we used to have “library class” once a week. At first it was when the librarian would read us a story and as we grew older it was when we would be taught mundane skills that we only realized were important later on: how to use an index, find [...]
Eastern Ontario Economic Showcase with Donald Trump
BOOK NOW! Don’t wait too long to register as an exhibitor for this event. We’d hate for you to be disappointed when all the prime spots are gone. Register now, get a great location and use the summer wisely to plan your space. Think creatively, constructively and strategically to catch the eye of the media, [...]
Gladwell – A Master Intellectual Opportunist
Food for thought. Not concrete, not a statistically significant way to measure society, not a stab at telling us in any firm way how the world works, but food for thought.
Gladwell presents us with fresh perspective, either through novelty, or an unabashed free conscience. Either way, the man is truly affluent in his abilities with [...]
Ottawa Social Media Book Club
Yesterday I participated in a book club discussion centered around Social Media. The club, which meets about once every three months, met at the downtown Fox and Feather Pub and was discussing The Cluetrain Manifesto. The ‘Manifesto’ is a book by now 10 years old but not to be confused as outdated. It talks about [...]
Don’t be afraid to experiment!
Malcolm is a true inspiration for the Canadian people and especially last Thursday afternoon for the Ottawa Community. I really enjoyed the Q & A and many people in the audience had the chance to email or use twitter to send in their questions! Yes! Many of us had their crackberries and iPhone turned on [...]
TalentBridge: All About Highly Skilled Creative Talent
Talent, Creative Class, Knowledge Workers, Entrepreneurship … cool buzzwords (some would contend) that are (some would contend again) fast emerging as qualifications that almost anyone and everyone wants to be defined with. True, sometimes these terms … especially in their (over)use as prescription for curing most of our current economic woes … are indeed infuriatingly vague and lack any [...]