SAMANTHA FORD ON CANNABIS BUSINESS TODAY + TOMORROW
According to Newsweek, “Canadians spend about as much money on weed as they do on wine. Statistics Canada, a federal statistics agency, found that Canadians consumed $4.8 billion worth of weed in 2015, putting the industry on par with the wine industry, which Canadians spend about $5.4 billion on.” –…
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BUILDING TEAMS PART II: BUILDING SQUADS AKA STRONG TEAMS
CHEMISTRY MATTERS It isn’t enough to put skilled individuals into a collective and expect it to work. The chemistry and personality types must be right in order to create a common objective. Trust us, we deal in chemistry every day and you can never underestimate how powerful a team of…
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CULTURE SERIES PART II: INSPIRING A COMPANY CULTURE
live by your word, now let’s discuss proactively building a company culture. When it comes to the culture race, we all know who the major players are. The guys who sit at the top of the food chain, gobbling up all the best candidates because their culture has become the…
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CULTURE SERIES PART I: BUILDING A COMPANY CULTURE – LIVE BY YOUR WORD OR SHUT UP
WE ASKED: WHAT DOES CULTURE MEAN? THEY SAID: It is unquestionably, always, no matter what, 100% to do with people. It’s never about a ping-pong table or some bean bags in the corner and no amount of cool slogans scribbled on a wall makes culture. It’s about walking through the…
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BEING HEARD ABOVE ALL THE NOISE
KNOW YOUR GOALS Know what it is you’re trying to accomplish at work and be sure of what you want to say. There is literally nothing worse in this world than someone rambling on in a meeting or by the water cooler. It’s also the fastest way to discredit yourself.…
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RELOCATION IS COMING
GET IT TOGETHER Seriously, this is the biggest tip and will always be tip number one. Relocation is often an exercise in staying organized. Remember that time in college when you didn’t do your dissertation and kept putting it off because quite frankly there were better things to do, and…
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