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Why Businesses (Really) Fail

And Why Even Mighty IBM Can’t Forget the Basics Below are some data published by BusinessWeek on why businesses fail. I’ll bet you that the top five reasons (too much debt, inadequate leadership, poor planning, failure to change and inexperienced management) are in fact related to number six on their list: not enough revenue; i.e., [...]

Read First Four Chapters Quantum Entity | we are all ONE, Free

You can download the first four chapters of Book 1 of Quantum Entity Trilogy free by clicking on: http://www.old.dramatispersonae.org/images/QuantumONE_CS_Third_Edition_First_Four_Chapters.pdf. If you believe in Ellen’s message that ‘We Are All ONE’, can you help us spread the word? Let your friends know that they too can get the first four chapters of Quantum Entity | we [...]

Exploriem.org Newsletter: June 12, 2012

Join Exploriem, all our sponsors and Artistic Entrepreneurs displaying their works at Artifex on June 20th 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. There will be a silent auction. View items Tickets can be purchased: Here. This Year’s Spotlight Artists Spotlight Writer – Bruce M. Firestone The official Book Launch [...]

Prof Bruce Talks with Ottawa BuzzTV

Prof Bruce talks with Rebecca Happy from Ottawa BuzzTV about why he wrote Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, Book 1 of his new sci-fi trilogy available at: www.brucemfirestone.com. Ottawa BuzzTV is a hyper local TV show that features local Ottawa business people and events produced by Rebecca Happy~ Your Local Online Marketing Mentor. Check [...]

Open Letter to Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame

To: Michael Flanagan, Chair and Members of the Board of Directors From: Dr. Bruce M Firestone, Founder Dear Mike and Board of Directors of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame: On behalf of myself, Cyril Leeder, Rod Bryden, Randy Sexton, my family and theirs, I wanted to express my profound gratitude that you saw it [...]

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 [...]

Artpreneurs Aren’t Important, Right?

Wrong! Here’s a thought experiment for you to perform. Close your eyes for a moment and ask yourself: how diverse, sustainable, interesting and vibrant a place would your city be if every one of these professionals went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever? Here’s my list of suddenly vanishing artpreneurs: graphic artists, architects, musicians, writers, [...]

Taking Life by the Horns

(Follow Your Passion/Face Your Fears) (Guest Article by Geoffrey Scoates, Student Entrepreneur, World Traveler, Writer) It’s really hard to forget someone like Prof Bruce. He’s bold, passionate and in your face. He’ll tell you what he thinks not because he wants to hurt you or crush your idea but because he cares and he has [...]

Publishing

Why so many established enterprises let entrepreneurs eat their lunch There is no industry that is changing faster than this one. Not music, film, television, nothing. It’s not just book publishing that is changing at an incredible rate as e-publishing platforms proliferate across the Internet and tablets, smart phones and computers become the medium of [...]

Moneyball Movie

10 Things You Can Learn about Sports and Business from Moneyball What the Ottawa Senators did Right to Make the Playoffs 12 out of 13 Years Television’s Golden Age could be Ahead not Behind I am an Aaron Sorkin fan from his days writing A Few Good Men, The American President and, of course, The [...]

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 [...]

CV Writing

Writing a CV is not as easy as you might think. As the saying goes, the shorter the resumé, the more important the person. It is quite sufficient if you are POTUS, say, to just have the seal of the President of the United States of America with your full name underneath. That’s it, that’s [...]