Strategy: Growth At What Cost?
I have offered my own Management Strategy and Entrepreneurship students my views on growth, from my career experience. My personal rule of thumb is that the ceiling for manageable growth of an...
View Article8 Stupid Reasons For Buying A Franchise Business
Those who know me know how much I love franchising opportunities.. David Reblogged from The Franchise King, Joel Libava http://www.thefranchiseking.com/8-stupid-reasons-for-buying-a-franchise-business...
View ArticleWhy The Biggest Tech Companies Are Not In Canada
Mayo0615 Reblog from July 22, 2013 It dawned on me that my blog post from July 2013, still has particular relevance to the current situation in Canada. I discuss the longer term structural issues...
View ArticleAfter Blackberry Canada Faces An Innovation Drought
Yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft will buy Nokia’s smart phone business for $7 Billion, serves to underscore the points made in this post, written before the Microsoft announcement. Speculation...
View ArticlePfizer's Corporate Tax "Inversion" To Ireland: Masqueraded Tax Evasion
Pfizer CEO Ian Read Pfizer’s announcement this week of its intricate $160 Billion merger/acquisition with Irish pharmaceutical company Allergan, revealed that Pfizer will be moving the new corporate...
View ArticleReid Hoffman: Venture Capitalist Loser | MIT Technology Review
UPDATE: Since I wrote this post last week, on November 25th, events swiftly unfolded to underscore the points I made in criticism of Reid Hoffman’s views on venture capital, in his interview with the...
View ArticleGetting Rich Off The Recession: "The Big Short" Comes to Hollywood
Liar’s Poker is one of those books one of your friends strongly urges you to read. A short little book, the recommendation I got from Bill Howe, my Canadian Intel colleague in Europe, was that it was...
View ArticleWhy The Biggest Tech Companies Are Not In Canada
Mayo0615 Reblog from July 22, 2013 It dawned on me that my blog post from July 2013, still has particular relevance to the current situation in Canada. I discuss the longer term structural issues...
View ArticleCMIG , new owner of Grouse Mtn. has ties to Anbang Insurance
From The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/grouse-mountain-acquisition-just-the-start-for-chinese-investment-firm-banker-says/article35699906/ Via The Globe and Mail’s Android...
View ArticleWCW III: World Chip War III
Intel: The Missing Piece In The Epic New Global Microchip Battle In the beginning, in the early 1970’s there were the original semiconductor companies like Intel, AMD, Motorola, and not far behind,...
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