
What Walt Rostow, the Aga Khan and Hernando de Soto Teach us about Bringing People Everywhere out of Poverty Here are excerpts of a short speech I gave at the World Partnership Walk (hosted by the Aga Khan Foundation*) a few years ago to celebrate the bringing together of many peoples and cultures...

I received this gift at a recent political event; see: http://www.ottawarealestatenews.com/TrilliumDinnerPinSensMapleLeafs3.jpg. Prof Bruce

I have come to believe that the REALTOR is a lot like a sports agent or an agent to the stars—in other words, it’s a personal services type of business. If...

Workouts are Times for Creativity and Flexibility A friend of mine who manages real estate workouts for a private lending group sent me this comment recently which I wanted to share...

What is one mistake product managers make that is absolutely unforgivable? They substitute their own views in place of the market’s. Remember this: the market is always right even when it is wrong. Or put another way: you are not the market. ...

The Québec-based founder of a high profile, world spanning entertainment colossus hired a PR firm to calculate the value of his recent junket off planet....

The next time your son or daughter asks for something, challenge them to a simple word game (from the 1964 film Father Goose with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron). If they can successfully repeat just three words, they’ll get what they want. If they don’t, you get what you want from them. Y...

I realized recently that the flip side to bootstrapping yourself to entrepreneurial success is negative cost selling...

Suburban v. Urban II Another way to look at the urban-suburban dichotomy is to view them as different nation-states with their own currencies...

The proliferation of information in the last Century and this one is beyond belief. In 2008 alone, 487 million gigabytes were added to the collection of digital information world-wide according to an IDC study titled: “As the Economy Contracts, the Digital Universe Expands”, May 2009. A...

I am a recent convert to the value of staging. Imagine if you went to your favourite men’s store to buy a new suit and you found all the suits strewn about the shop floor. To find one, you had to walk over others, pick it up, dust it off and try it on? ...

The City of Ottawa’s policy on densifying the national capital region is working, at least if price differentials are any indication of success: a new 3-bedroom townhome on Centrepointe Drive (located inside the greenbelt in what used to be Nepean) sold recently for around $401,000. ...

Readers of this blog will know that I think that after your decision to actually start a new enterprise, your next most important decision arrives when you hire your first employee. It’s talented people that produce revenue streams not assets so always try to hire ‘up’. I lo...









