
I was asked recently on a local radio show about why Scotiabank Place (SBP) is where it is and why it isn’t at Lansdowne Park. My comments on the show were part of a 20-year record of mine explaining the rationale behind the location of the arena where the Sens play. ...

I have a saying: “Opportunities are here you find them.” And what I mean by that is opportunity is everywhere—all around you—you just have to be open to those happy events to be able to see them. A person only becomes old when they stop being open to new things and ideas. The mo...

Value of a City’s Treescape This is an analysis I did in 2003; I was trying to show that the worth of art and creativity is significantly under valued by society. ...

I often get asked by inventors: “I have a great idea, why can’t I just sell it to a big firm for a bundle and let them run with it?” Large, established firms don’t buy ideas—they buy cashflow and, while this is often disappointing when inventors hear this, there are logical reasons behind this posi...

Introduction I tell most of my SMEE (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise) clients (and my students) that real estate investing is usually a good idea. Homeownership and owning your own business premises makes sense to me in most cases. Why is that? Well, here are a few of my reasons: 1...

Best Of Kanata How to Explain to your Clients that by Buying your Product or Service, It will be a Negative Cost to Them My friend, Richard Rutkowski, a former City of Kanata Councillor is an intriguing person—very sure of himself, a good marketer, a good promoter and a sure handed politician (...

Have a PB4L (Personal Business for Life)? (Originally appeared in the Ottawa Business Journal, Oct. 2009) For the last few years, I have become increasingly certain that people in the 21st Century may need what I can only call a Personal Business...

For a New Retail Plaza I get asked all the time, how do you measure the rate of return on real estate...

This simple equation is something that Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke and Coach Ron Wilson may have to become familiar with. When we brought back the Sens in 1992 to play in the National League after a nearly 60 year absence, we set our goal from Day 1: the team had to get 22 or more points that year...

Or Are You Bringing a Wolf into the Tent? An acquaintance who runs a large tech services business, asked me if he can hire one of the hot shot entrepreneur students I trained a few years ago. His worry? He is bringing a wolf into the tent...

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...

When Your Wife Asks You for a Divorce A young friend of mine and I had breakfast the other day—he was devastated. His wife had asked him for a divorce on the weekend and he was reeling. ...








