The wonderful spectacle of the Vancouver Olympics inspired me this morning to return to a subject that has been a focus of mine since I read Carlos Casteneda’s The Yaqui Way of Knowledge in the 1970s—how to become an impeccable warrior. It’s not easy yet it is essential if you want to be a successful [...]
Learning the Human-PC Interface and Why Smart Phone Users May be Unproductive I have learned a lot from watching my kids work, especially on their laptops or PCs. The human-machine interface is incredibly important to our national productivity and most people relate poorly to their PCs—other than write email, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, use a [...]
Or Why You Need to Bring some Entrepreneurial Skills to your JOB and Become an Intrapreneur By Dan Cardamore, Former Student and Tech Manager (dan@hld.ca) A year ago I was interviewing students from an excellent university in Canada for a software development position. The students ranged from second year students to fourth year students so [...]
What are the Ten Most Important Things You need to do to Create a Successful Startup? By Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, B. Eng. (Civil), M. Eng.-Sci., PhD., Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa March 1st, 2008 (Prepared for the First Annual Entrepreneurship Seminar sponsored by The Entrepreneurs’ Club, Telfer School of Management) Well, [...]
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch in a Business Week article (Feb. 4, 2008) state that a CEO (and a prospective President of the US in this an election year in the US) need five basic leadership skills: 1. They need to be authentic and, hence, trusted; 2. That have to have vision and be able [...]
Take this 5 – 10 minute online test and see how you rate as a would-be entrepreneur. This is for entertainment purposes only. Like most tests, it only gives approximate results, but evidence suggests that there is a correlation between your score on the ECQ test and success as an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurialist Culture Quotient online [...]