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Two-minute summaries of big ideas from new business books. Reviews by Jay Robb are originally published in the Hamilton Spectator.
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7M ago
Good things come to those who wait. Quitters also get their share of good things. I’m proof of that. I’ve quit four jobs in my career. Started with a nonprofit and then moved on to a hospital, steelmaker, college and university. Worked with hundreds of colleagues and dozens of senior leaders. And got immersed in different ..read more
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8M ago
From Bentonville, Arkansas and weighing in with revenues of $661 billion, it’s the 61-year-old champion of everyday low prices with more than 10,500 brick and mortar stores, Walmart. And from Seattle, Washington with $514 billion in revenue, it’s the 29-year-old online retailer and e-commerce champion of one-click convenience, Amazon. In this clash of the retail ..read more
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9M ago
Don’t confuse one-off new employee orientation (here are the rules – do this, don’t do that, go here, not there) with the warm welcome of year-long onboarding. The wunderkind you just hired is quitting. At least she gave you two weeks notice. Another promising new hire left during lunch and never returned. The employees who’ve ..read more
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9M ago
Did you hear the one about the yoga studio that became a hotbed for wackadoodle disinformation? Sadly, it’s not a conspiracy theory. Derek Beres, Matthew Remski and Julian Walker warn about the toxic marriage of New Age spiritualism with QAnon-infused fever dreams in their book Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat ..read more
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10M ago
I got three things right with my career. I avoided soul-crushing commutes by always working and living in the same city. My current commute is the best yet – a stress-free 20-minute walk through a park and a neighbourhood. I worked for big employers – a hospital, steelmaker, college and university – full of good ..read more
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10M ago
The good times were still rolling when the masters of the universe gathered for their annual capitalist cheerfest in Davos, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum was in full swing in late January 2020 even as Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in central China, was on lockdown. “Corporate executives, hedge fund titans and government ..read more
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1y ago
I meet with public relations students every year to warn them against making the same mistake I made as a freshly minted grad. I left university with a pair of degrees back in 1992. I’d made it on the Dean’s Honour List for three of my four years as an undergrad thanks to electives in ..read more
Getting and staying ahead by leaving others behind (review of Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, By America)
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1y ago
Do you really need a tax break if you can afford to spend the equivalent of a mortgage payment or a month’s rent on a two-night stay at a resort? Probably not. But that didn’t stop me from claiming the new staycation tax credit while filing my taxes. That decision drove home the key message ..read more
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1y ago
How do you know if someone’s adopted a rescue dog? They can’t wait to tell you. And how do you know if someone’s bought a dog from a breeder? They don’t want to tell you or they apologize. Not so long ago, buying a pricey pup was a status marker for the have-lots. The have-nots ..read more
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1y ago
What’s a child’s life worth? For children cursed to live in southeast Congo, we’ve decided their lives are worth the eight grams of cobalt in our smartphones. The Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa has the world’s largest cobalt reserves. It’s an essential element for the batteries that’ll drive our renewable energy revolution ..read more