Author: alby59

The Christmas season has offered, I hope, a bit of respite from the day-to-day stress. Certainly, it is a time of reflection and goal setting – a time for renewal. I certainly enjoyed my family time and considered the many blessings we have in the Okanagan. I am sure that people, for the most part,…

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers.…

This week I am tackling a different issue altogether, which is very close to my heart because of what I do for living. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has just released a report on municipal tax trends with respect to business taxpayers in British Columbia stating that local governments operating expenses are too…

I invite you to watch the following video produced by Volkswagen. Very interesting and thought provoking  

This week I had the pleasure to participate to the “Building Sustainable Communities” conference organized by the Fresh Outlook Foundation in Kelowna. The Conference was extremely interesting and varied, something that has become rare in these occasions. There were a number of courageous moves by the organizer on the variety of subjects offered to the…

The following video is self-explanatory

Peter Drucker, one of the greatest management and leadership thinkers of our time, once stated: “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time is written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an…

This week I wish to share with you the following video hoping to foster some deep thought on how little we need to do to make others happier and better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-W6y0HzFWk&feature=related adf

As I think of the way today we look at and deal with each other, I found the following video extremely inspirational. Enjoy it: adf

I recently read the following statement from an Anonymous writer: “Because we don’t know what is really important to us, everything seems important. Because everything seems important, we have to do everything. Other people, unfortunately, see us as doing everything, so they expect us to do everything. Doing everything keeps us so busy, we don’t…