@TheManagersBox

🇨🇦 https://xitter.cf/t.co/MqrqpEVFhI Author of ManagersBox. With experience across multiple sectors of management, I write about business & leadership.🇨🇦

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The Economics of Power

Part I: What Is Something Really Worth?

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Walking through my old school in Hanna during our 50th reunion started me thinking about how much education has changed since we graduated in 1976. A few days later, I sat down with two longtime Alberta educators and held a conversation over coffee.

The Art of Teaching: What Changed, What Still Matters

A few days ago, I walked through the school I attended in Hanna more than fifty years ago.

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You Cannot Build Unity With Contempt

A recent anti-separation poster carried the headline, “On October 19th, we will take out the trash.” I understood the political objective. The people sharing it oppose Alberta’s separation from …

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Supply and Demand Are Always Shifting

Canada’s Heavy Oil Advantage

Henry Hazlitt spent considerable time explaining the relationship between supply, demand and price. Those principles remain important, but Canada's heavy oil presents a more interesting economic quest…

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A Conversation with Jen: Is Bill Gates on Track About AI?

Who is Jen? Jen is my AI assistant. Our conversations are used as a writing device to explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and examine issues from different perspectives.

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Durables in Canada may have seen an uptick in sales the past 12 months as a result of Canadians staying home.

Why Small Businesses Actually Carry the Economy

When we talk about the economy, the conversation tends to gravitate toward the largest organizations. Major corporations dominate business headlines, large investment announcements attract politicians…

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Leadership Cannot Be Outsourced to a Ballot

Listening is one of the first responsibilities of leadership. Anyone who has spent enough time managing a business eventually learns that the person at the top does not know as much as the organizatio…

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You Still Don’t Have to Be in Power to Help Your Country

Four months ago, after attending the Liberal Party convention in Montreal, I wrote an article called You Don’t Have to Be in Power—or in Ottawa—to Help Your Country.

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Subsidies, Incentives, and Market Distortion

Governments have always looked for ways to encourage economic activity. Tax credits, grants, loan guarantees, infrastructure support, preferential financing, and direct subsidies are all used to attra…

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When Solutions Become Constraints

There is a phrase I have found myself returning to lately: recognizing when yesterday’s solution has become today’s constraint. I normally think about it in the context of leadership. Organization…

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We all value objects differently. A proper pricing model should reflect what a willing buyer will pay. That's pure market economics.

Why Cost Doesn't Determine Value

"What a commodity has cost to produce in the past cannot determine its value." — Henry Hazlitt

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Time to Capture The Value of a Finite Resource

Alberta Has an Oil Pricing Problem

I have spent a great deal of time over the past few years writing about Alberta's relationship with oil. In The Seduction of Alberta, and later throughout my Managed Decline series, I kept coming back…

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