Reading Time: < 1 minute One of Canada’s leading food-meets-farm voices tells us her own recipe for business success At first, CJ Katz sounds impressed with Saskatchewan agriculture. But why, she wonders, won’t the province do even more to impress her? She’ll be happy to pay. “We have a lot of interesting things going on here,” Katz says. She cites […] Read more
Savour The Life
Katz’s Take On:
Reading Time: 2 minutes “ Marketing is everything,” CJ Katz says emphatically. “You have to put the time in to think — you have to.” Consumer marketing “The biggest problem is that people who market to the consumer, who create new products, they do so in a vacuum,” CJ Katz says. They don’t realize all the trends going on […] Read more
The Recipe For Business
Reading Time: 2 minutes To make the magazine sustainable, Katz departed from the normal publishing business model. The magazine is free for readers, which isn’t unusual in her market. But what is unusual is that very few columnists are paid — and some actually pay her to write for the magazine. The columns are a type of advertising for […] Read more
You aren’t alone. Everyone has that special person who always upsets everything. Here’s what to do
Reading Time: 2 minutes Maybe it’s a supplier who tries to bully you into always doing things his or her way. Or it could be a neighbour who complains no matter what you do, or an employee who brings essential skills, but is forever going his own way. “Everyone has to deal with conflict,” says Paul Reisman, president of […] Read more
Robert Latimer has nearly finished the 10-year sentence for his part in his daughter Tracy’s death. Meanwhile, there’s been little improvement in the rural health care system that also played its role
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the end of 2009, Bob Latimer will have served his full 10 years and the government will effectively say that he has now been reformed. The question is: Has rural health care been reformed too? Whatever your view of Robert L a t ime r, ma n y farmers across the country had hoped […] Read more
We spend time every day thinking about how to manage our farms through good times and bad, but what about ourselves? Our experts weigh in
Reading Time: 2 minutes Linda Duxbury doesn’t need batteries. Her warning is powerful enough on its own: “Only one in five people are able to turn it off.” A Blackberry will actually make it more difficult for you to find the time to focus on family, says Duxbury, a professor in the Carleton University school of business who specializes […] Read more
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