Do you have something in your business or our life you want to change … some situation you want to have a different and more positive out come? If so, read ‘Switch ~How to Change Things When Change is Hard’ by Chip Heath and Dan Heath and then give it a try. This witty and…
Published: October 27th, 2011: By: Nick Hughes Ed Mirvish was 15 when his father died. As a result, he had to drop out of high school to run the not very successful store his father had opened in Toronto. He struggled to keep it afloat for 9 years before conceding defeat. But this inauspicious start…
Last week we celebrated two Canadian companies that have a significant impact in Canada; Lee Valley Tools and Dufflet Pastries. This week we celebrate a company that has a presence on a global scale; the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. In 1961 a young architect named Isadore Sharp, who knew nothing about the hotel business,…