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W. Brett Wilson, Dragons' Den co-star and Risky Business host, often gets asked about his secrets to success. He became one of Canada's top investment bankers because he was driven, willing to take risks and saw opportunity where others saw roadblocks. But along the path to business success, he tripped over a multitude of misguided priorities. For many years, Wilson pursued business with uncompromising focus, working long hours, seven days a week. In the process, his marriage and his health suffered greatly: he was rarely home as his children were growing up, divorce became inevitable and cancer struck at age forty-three. He truly learned the hard way that one can find financial success and ...
The book is divided into three major sections. The first presents a theoretical discussion that underlies the other essays. The second section deals with privatization issues from the perspective of the United States. The third describes research addressed to the U. K. and Canada. In the first chapter, Richard Zeckbauser and Murray Horn develop a wide-ranging theoretical framework for assessing the capabilities and role of state-owned enterprises; it provides a foundation for the analyses that follow. In The Control and Perfonnance o[ State-Owned Enterprises , they describe state-owned enterprises as an extreme case of the separation of ownership and control. The focus is on management --the...
L'économie québécoise en perspective - Le contexte international - La concurrence s'amplifie et se diversifie - La compétitivité de l'économie québécoise - Les changements technologiques - À la recherche de l'excellence - Vers une économie d'investissements - Quelques tendances plus spécifiques au Québec - Le rôle du gouvernement dans l'économie - Développer de grandes entreprises québécoises - Prendre parti pour le long terme - La formation : miser sur la qualité et l'audace - Le relèvement économique de Montréal - La langue : le compromis est-il possible ?
"Proceedings of a symposium held July 22-24, 1987 in Vancouver, B.C."--Title page verso.