I weighed in on the current shenanigans playing out in Canadian federal and municipal politics: the Mike Duffy/Senate expenses story, and the Mayor Rob Ford/crack smoking video allegation. Here is my blog post satirizing it all as a new Canadian ... [Continue Reading]
New reality show: Men Behaving Badly (Canadian edition)
I don't usually resort to commenting on either politics or TV shows. I want to stay above the fray, I honestly do. Still, it is pretty hard not to have some strong negative opinions about the 2 current pilot episodes of the new reality series show ... [Continue Reading]
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a fundamentally flawed concept
The vast majority of business practitioners that I have met and worked with throughout my career are caring, honest people who one would generally regard as striving to be morally and ethically responsible. They don’t particularly want to run ... [Continue Reading]
At the heart of business — 3 ironies
Being fascinated by business I have spent some time studying the specific toxic natures of the machine. And as any good engineer is taught to proceed, I have deconstructed the machine to try to better understand how and why it operates the way ... [Continue Reading]
The reality about business – a toxic “machine”
I am troubled. I am deeply troubled by much of the wreckage of the outcomes of the modern corporations and its current business practices. I want to be, and generally am, an unfettered advocate for open markets, for globalization, for ownership ... [Continue Reading]
Welcome to the Detox Project
This blog is going to explore various aspects of a research and advocacy initiative that I have taken to calling "The Business Detox Project". I've been cobbling together my ideas on this for ... [Continue Reading]
