Putting your expectations in cultural context
Do I expect too much? I found myself asking this questions many times last week. Last week after exiting the Hamburg Airport we found the...
Do I contradict myself? Very well then….
I had planned to post this blog last Friday. However, Friday, July 1 was Canada Day and I am happy to report that the weather was lovely...
The Frenchman and the Spaniard
In the fourth chapter (out of more than 100) of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo, the villainous supercargo (purser) of the...
Privacy, Taste, Preferences, & Relationships
Recently I was in Ottawa. I stayed at Swiss Hotel for three nights in May. How did I choose the hotel? I discovered the hotel on Expedia,...
The Big Bang (for your buck)
I have yet to meet a business person who wants to squander their money; but I have observed many projects and initiatives that end up...
Looking into the void for answers
I grew up in Nova Scotia in a card-playing family. My younger brother and I played cards a lot with our parents, grandparents, aunts,...
Making your point: loyalty programs & communication
Dear Readers: You will be happy to know that since becoming a PC Plus member I have redeemed points valued at $250 and that my current...
Exclusivity and the mass market.
Andy Warhol said: What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the...
Flattery - an introduction
I am always grateful when someone offers to write a blog for www.itisadityjob.com. As I have mentioned, producing a weekly blog among my...
Flattery — How awesome is that?
​One of the perplexing things about Dante’s Divine Comedy (the dramatic date of which is the year 1300 A.D.) is why flattery is placed so...
