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Attracting and retaining customers and motivated employees, managing growth, improving margins and providing substantial returns for investors are multidimensional challenges facing Canadian companies this year.

A “voracious appetite” for investment properties led B.C. to its second-best year on record for investment deals, according to Avison Young’s roundup of last year’s transactions valued in excess of $5 million.

CEO challenge:

Boom? What boom?

Just back from another eye-opening trip to Cuba (cycling this time). I was struck by the continuing improvements in the old city of Havana. Mostly I was impressed by the business model driving the restoration of this world heritage UNESCO site.

In the past month, I have had two unique opportunities: the first was to spend a few days in Boston with one of my clients and Frances Frei from Harvard; the second was a fireside chat with some fellow CEOs and author Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Outliers, What the Dog Saw). There were some great strategic nuggets interwoven into both conversations, and I want to share with you what I learned.

Would B.C.’s forest sector allow a few rogue companies to put the sector’s global reputation on the line by shaking down Asian customers with sky-high prices for shoddy product?

The McLaughlin family owns 1,210 acres and leases 130 more acres on Grouse Mountain even as it has whittled down real estate holdings at Burns Bog from 5,500 acres decades ago to 513 acres today

This being a business paper, I will mention that I don�t fear death, anyway not as much as I fear getting into the hands of the Old Folks Industry.

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