Scotland is beginning to sound a lot like Alberta: The booming oil price is fuelling an accoun­tancy recruitment crisis in Aberdeen as other firms struggle to match the salaries being paid by the cash-rich energy companies. Multi­na­tionals such as BP, Shell and Schlum­berger are taking advantage of the near-record price of a barrel to pay […]

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Jeremy Newman, the Managing Director of BDO Stoy Hayward in the UK, provides real leadership and an inspi­ration across the pond to me and no doubt others who read about his management style and philosophy. He writes about workplaces banning Facebook, which is very popular right now here in Toronto among employers. I am not […]

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It’s pretty cool that the Canadian dollar reached parity with the US during trading this past week, because I wasn’t even born back in 1976, the last time we were there. To say there’s been a sudden upsurge in Canadian flag-waving is an under­statement, but the increase is due to the greenback’s weakening, as the […]

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Small Is Essential At 37signals, a company with just eight employees whose Web-based collab­o­ration software is used by thousands of small businesses, there isn’t time to sit around a conference room sipping latte and decon­structing memos. Come to think of it, there isn’t even a company conference room. There are just a couple of cubicles, […]

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New York magazine has a feature on the offices of prominent New Yorkers, from Martha Stewart to Michael Bloomberg. Martha’s was devoid of anything remotely resem­bling work, which perhaps indicates how much of it she gets done. (No word on where the insider trading occurred.) But it was Bloomberg’s that really impressed me, because he […]

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