Flip on your Turn Signal

Have you ever come up behind a vehicle at a traffic light only to find it is about to turn left on the green, has not signaled and you are stuck behind waiting to move forward? And, perhaps you face another red light? At that point, you would probably have a...

Selling

From time to time CCCC has offered thoughts on selling in these newsletters. A recent book on selling and a 2016 Globe and Mail article on the same topic in 2017 prompted us to restate these concepts in the priority that we feel flows with sensible ideas. Your ability...

Everybody Lies

With an original title of “Power Corrupts” for this paper, I changed gears in mid-stream because of the facts emanating from a book sharing the above eponymy. The truth of the matter is human behavior takes us down a certain path, one we have been following for over...

The Lowdown on Bitcoins

Around 1995 I attended a conference about a new mail service called the Internet that reached anywhere in the world for free. It was almost too good to be true. When I returned to my high-tech office in Ottawa of SPS (300 employees in 6 cities) to tell my engineers,...

Painless Education

We all know that there is no such thing as painless learning, but CCCC, over the past five years put in an effort to make learning as easy as we could. Perhaps we have made history as we valiantly competed for 1 with universities’ MBA programs by ours, which was...