When Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Learnings from Personal Experience with McDonald’s and Whole Foods Market, and the Value of Experience Overview Food retailing, whether in supermarkets or restaurants, is extremely fast-paced. Your weekly sales define whether you are winning or losing. Both Whole Foods Market and McDonald’s have won their categories through faithfulness to their mission and values, cultures of […]
Canadian SMBs – Listen to Springsteen: “You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.” [Badlands]
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are taking a wait and see approach to hiring and investing in growth drivers, according to the CFIB. Until the economy shows stronger signals. But as a SMB leader it’s important to recognize that’s not going to happen for many years, according to IMF and OECD forecasts. It conjures up […]
How to Hack Your SMB’s Salary Cap
3 Ingredients To Out-Compete The Big Guys For Consistently Superior Business Results Why not manage your talent flexibly to get superior results, like NHL teams do, working around salary cap limits to ice a consistently competitive team? Most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worry about not meeting productivity and revenue growth targets due to talent […]
How Age 45+ Canadian Businesspeople can Address the Skills Shortage
My friends, “Christine” and “Marvin” were commenting on the ageism they have been facing as they look for their next work opportunity. Both are in their mid-50s and have strong business experience: Christine as a VP level accountant in retail and Marvin as a director level consumer marketer in technology, with international experience. Christine noted […]
Canada’s “Lack of Entrepreneurial Culture” Won’t be Solved by University Courses
10 Ways Age 45+ Businesspeople Can Help Start-ups Launch and Small Businesses Increase Growth Rates “100,000 fewer entrepreneurs than 20 years ago puts the economy in danger”: BDC The BDC’s recent report, “Entrepreneurship in Motion” revealed that despite our population growth of 10 million in the past 2 decades, Canada has 100k fewer entrepreneurs than […]