I have been meaning to write a small TalentBridge piece on OpinionOttawa for some time now. TalentBridge was recognized as a best practise in the “Talent White Paper” and it is really gratifying to see the effort of the last two years being recognized in this manner. One of the comments left for the Talent [...]
In my role at OCRI as the Manager for Entrepreneurship Development, I regularly find myself advising young Ottawa entrepreneurs on the merits of bootstrapping. Ottawa has a rich portfolio of bootstrap support available in the form of numerous business plan competitions - including TVC - hosted locally and regionally. Besides the obvious financial rewards - the [...]
Richard Florida made a statement about educational institutions in his talk on Friday at the “Creative Leadership Conference”. He said “Education Institutions should be about knowledge discovery and learning”. Allied to that statement he quoted Peter Drucker and mentioned “Research Universities as we know them will one day die”. The specific phrase he used for educational [...]
Today I was at the Creative Leadership conference hosted by the Conference Board of Canada and had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Dr. Richard Florida. To put it succintly, Ottawa needs more thought leaders like Dr. Florida to come through and make a case for “Reset”. Dr. Florida at length talked about how it [...]
I am not sure how many people noticed it, but Yahoo quietly killed Geocities on the 26th of October. Again not sure how many people know this, but at its peak Geocities was the third most visited site on the web. What happened? …… Really, What happened?
How could the website that heralded the arrival of [...]
My fascination with ideas goes back to my early days growing up in - what in a Canadian context would often be classified as - a tough environment. With not much going on around us, us being my younger sister and I, our ideas were our imaginary jet streams that we rode to give shape [...]
This last Thursday I had the privelege of listening to two really good speakers, Andrew Fisher from Wesley Clover and Peter Hofstra from Greenrock Asset Management, at the Algonquin Applied Research Day. They both touched on the topics of Applied Research, Talent Development and Engagement and the general state of the Canadian Economy. Enclosed below, [...]
I hit this video while randomly going through youtube channels on innovation, and the message resonated with me immediately. I think what Tom Peters says this video about Competitive Benchmarking and how it stifles innovation is good “food for thought” for all of us who are busy developing their business strategy while reading case studies [...]
I have been relatively quiet the past few days … because we are fast approaching the year end and it is that time of the year where all of us have to close our open engagements to free our time for the holiday of the year … and because I was waiting for an appropriate [...]
Mumbai is under attack once again, and it is once again a highly coordinated attack - not something that could have been carried out by a rag-tag group of random mercenaries - showing hallmarks of monetary, and logistical support that could only come with an active involvement of folks who want to destabilize the largest [...]
Someone close to me just now forwarded me a response from an interviewing manager. Unfortunately, the answer is negative … after almost three stages of interviews he basically got told that “they felt that he was too smart for the role” and that “their concern is that the job may not be able to do [...]
… consistently is tough. Of the many things that stood out for me in the 2008 US election, this insight was definitely one of the TOPS. Sarah Palin’s selection as the running mate of Mr. McCain is a decision that bamboozled me at that time, and (in retrospect) is still quite perplexing for me. Though, in [...]
I have to accept that the results of the US 2008 elections have left me speechless and in awe of the result. I should take this opportunity to accept that I was in incorrect in my analysis of the American populace, and I will in this moment extend my apologies to them for doubting that [...]
