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When Success Isn’t Enough
*** Guest on Business as Mission (BAM) Canada *** What makes someone an entrepreneur? Is it a lengthy resume, a heavy academic record, a successful business?
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Life Beyond Business
Ideas about purpose, identity, freedom, and building a life that is larger than the company.
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How to Find Purpose as a Business Owner
If you've been grinding through your business without a clear goal in mind—just hoping this year turns out better than the last—you’re not alone.
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Stop Paying People to Lose
If Canada were a business, you’d fire half the company. That’s not hyperbole — that’s what the June Statistics Canada wage and productivity report suggests to any owner who’s paying attention.
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Canada’s Economy Needs a Therapist
Canada isn’t just limping—it’s crying for help . And I’ve decided to try and help it. A little. While still making moves to the U.
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Canada Runs Like a Bad Business
What if Canada wasn’t a country... but a business? I’m not talking about the flag-waving, maple-syrup identity stuff.
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Canada’s Budget Is a Joke
Today’s episode hits different. I wasn’t planning on talking about politics again. I’ve said what I’ve needed to say.
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AI Agents, Emotional Letdowns, and the Reluctant March Toward the Exit
Another day, another digital deep-dive—and another reminder that building anything meaningful in 2024 is equal parts people , technology , and patience .
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Boomers Think I’ve Lost My Mind: I Think They Wrecked the Country
I’ve started to get a bit of heat for my opinions lately. Some of it from baby boomers. Some of it from family.
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Canada, You’re Making It Too Easy to Leave
Something has shifted. Not suddenly—but noticeably. A slow, steady erosion of motivation, of belief, of clarity about what the future holds if we stay put here in Canada.
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Play The Game On The Field
I just wrapped up my Saturday morning run — a rhythm I’ve come to enjoy for clearing my head. Saturdays will be my wrap-up days.
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You Know What, Dylan? I’ve Been Thinking…
I heard a phrase this morning that carries a lot of weight in my house: “You know what, Dylan? I’ve been thinking.
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Maybe It's Not About The Math
I spent the morning trying to answer a simple but important question: If I moved to Texas or Spain — or just stayed in Calgary — what would the tax implications actually be?
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Watching a Great Place Become ...Less Great
It’s hard to watch something once great become... average. As I take a walk and think through what the next year might look like — maybe moving to the U.
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Canadian Election Results: What They Mean for My Business and Maybe Yours Too
Now that the Canadian election results are in, as a business owner, what does it mean? I'm an entrepreneur, 47 years old, based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Your business can always do more. Don't wait until it's too late.
As if it wasn't hard enough to find a customer and generate sales, every entrepreneur also has to find ways of keeping customers happy and has to find new ways of keeping them coming back.
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Why bother?
I enjoy a tremendous amount of freedom. Every day I get to do the things I want to do but even in the middle of all my freedom I have days where I wonder: "Is this worth it?"
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Have you filled in the gaps?
Take a look at your business right now and see if you can identify the next challenge it may face or the next opportunity it might have.
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(2/5) How do you engage with your greatest asset?
Human nature says that we (including entrepreneurs) will take the path of least resistance. When it comes to customers there can be a tendency to actively engage with them when a sale is imminent and engage less actively when there is not.
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How keeping things simple can help your sales.
There isn't always time for a plan. You don't always have the energy or the motivation to gather the smartest people you have access to and ask them for help.
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Imagine selling more than what you expected. Cyber Monday.
How many times have you set a sales target and hit it? How many times has your business really worked hard on a sales strategy that produced an amazing result?
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BMW is proof how thinking ahead can help your business.
What will your sales be next month? Which customers are most likely to interact with your business over the coming months?
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What do you do when costs rise faster than sales? Don't ask MEC.
There is a saying: you never know what you have until it's gone. This couldn't be more true for entrepreneurs that grew their business on the expectation that sales would continue into the future as they had been in the past.
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Sometimes you have to shut it down.
Every entrepreneur has their doubts at some point. The battle to keep your business alive while you try to find the next sale or opportunity can be difficult.
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What's the problem?
Listen to the podcast here: Can you explain what your business does without mentioning the products or services it offers?
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Crowdfunding is off to a good start but how will it end?
Peter Thiel makes a comment in his book Zero to One "If you have invented something new but you haven't invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business - no matter how good the product" which got me thinking about…
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When do you know to stop and make a change?
One of the big headlines today is that Canada Post is eliminating doorstep delivery and cutting up to 8,000 jobs in an attempt to make a dent in the $6.
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Things Thursday - it all points to one thing
Between the US government shutting down and BlackBerry selling off its real estate things this week seem to point one direction - planning (or lack there of).
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So BlackBerry is selling some real estate. Is there a lesson here?
It's all over the Canadian headlines today - BlackBerry (who owns more than 20 buildings and reportedly controls 15% of the total office market in Waterloo, Ontario) is selling some real estate.
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That moment when someone asks "can you afford it"
I had breakfast today with a colleague who is in the commercial industrial sales/leasing market and we were talking about that moment he has with clients when they do a gut check about financing.
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If the end was near are you ready?
Two articles grabbed my attention this morning - one from the National Post ( Krugman warns Canada vulnerable to a ‘big deleveraging shock’ ) and one from the Globe and Mail ( Electric wave jolts car parts maker to innovate ).
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NIM (not short for nimrod) getting squeezed in Canada
There was an article posted today in the Financial Post that was headlined "End-of-the-party feel to BMO results" (see http://business.
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