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Negative Cost Selling Solar Arrays

School Board Pays Negative Cost for new Solar Panel Installations Rex Parris, Mayor of Lancaster, California doesn’t like to lose. It must come from his class-action lawyer background where he won almost $1 billion in claims for his clients and himself. Three years ago he decided to make the city where the sun (almost) always [...]

Artifex Schedule and Script

How to Plan and Execute an Event Here is the schedule and script from the First Annual Artifex, Professional Artist Gala held at the National Gallery of Canada on June 20, 2012. This shows the level of detail you need to put into planning any event and, even then, things can and will go wrong. [...]

Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech

By: Bruce M Firestone, Founder, Ottawa Senators Date: June 6, 2012 Thank you for inviting me here tonight. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here with my family, friends, colleagues, Sens fans and executives as well as Board of Directors from the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame. I got word that [...]

Great Art

At TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2011, U2′s Bono made an offhand, almost throwaway comment that stopped me in my tracks. He said something like this: ‘The difference between good, maybe even very good art and great art is HUGE.‘ Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs would do well to keep this in mind. Steve Jobs was [...]

IOE, Institute of Entrepreneurs

IOE5100, Advanced Business Models Exploriem.org’s Institute of Entrepreneurs presents IOE5100, Advanced Business Models for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Artpreneurs, an MBA level course (For available dates and times as well as more information, please contact: Ms. Theresia Scholtes, tscholtes @ exploriem.org or @tclsholtes) Come study with Prof Bruce, a leader in designing and building business models [...]

On Leadership (Continued)

(Prepared for Professor Matthew Archibald’s 4th year Seminar on Leadership Development: Friday March 9, 2012 from 1 to 3 pm in DMS 4140) For more on this subject, please refer to: Defining Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2668. Corporate Culture, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2656. The Entrepreneur Skill Set: A to Z, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1274. On Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1155. 10 Things that Entrepreneurs can Learn from [...]

Goal Setting and the 1992/93 Ottawa Senators

(Which Team was the NHL’s Worst Ever? The 1974/75 Washington Capitals and I Can Prove It.) Goal setting is an important part of future success for would-be entrepreneurs. Enterprises that set goals and track their metrics are growing at 7x the rate of enterprises that don’t according to a Silicon Valley study published in May [...]

Occupy But Measure

I woke up this morning thinking that OWS supporters everywhere might want to find more ways to influence the conversation beyond sit-ins. One thing that occurred to me was that they could adapt LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mission statements to their cause. LEED rates the built [...]

Real Estate Investing Made Simple

I met with a couple in their early 40s last week and they asked me to lay out a program for them so that in addition to building their portfolio of financial assets, they could create a real estate portfolio as well. They agreed that the latter would not include a ‘flip this house/as-seen-on-TV’ approach–they [...]

What is Your Email Address Book Worth?

The short answer is: ‘I don’t know.’ But recently published figures (Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct. 2, 2011) give us a clue. LivingSocial recently offered $20 worth of goods (via their coupon service) that can be redeemed at Whole Foods for $10. But wait, they’re paying an estimated $18 to $20 for each coupon* so they’re taking [...]

Defining Leadership

Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, says leadership is about getting people to do things they know are not in their best interests. WRONG. This is absolutely not what leaders do, at least, not the successful ones I have known in RL (Real Life). So for Adams and others, here is my attempt at defining what a [...]

Is Corporate Planning Obsolete?

I was recently asked about helping a fast-growing, local tech company with their ‘corporate planning process’ as they prepare for a possible IPO. As readers of this blog will know, I am not a huge fan of Business Plans or a Corporate Planning Process, per se—in my view, corporations and their ecosystems are changing way [...]