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Why nice guys do finish first

'Give and Take' looks at why helping others creates success

By Maggie Van Camp October 16, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Give and Take: Why helping others drives our success By Adam Grant, Penguin Publ. Adam Grant’s approach to business relationships seems counterintuitive, like it would make you a suicidal little fish in a tank of big, hungry fish, but Grant sets out in his business bestseller Give and Take to prove that good guys really do […] Read more

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Books: The tastemaker

When consumers think food, they don’t think farmer

By Helen Lammers-Helps March 13, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes Sometimes the difference between how farmers and consumers think about food is most glaring when someone tries to cross the divide. Interviewer Helen Lammers-Helps wanted to put the question into the hands of David Sax, a Toronto-based business writer who is becoming a lead voice on food and on who decides what we eat. Sax […] Read more

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This is thriving?

Guide Reviews: Maybe there’s something we can learn from a media darling after all

By Maggie Van Camp January 16, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes THRIVE By Arianna Huffington, Crown Publishing Group, $31.00 In her new how-to on how to succeed, and how to know you are succeeding, Arianna Huffington emerges at her ironic best, calling one chapter “Sleep your way to the top.” The irony isn’t really a surprise, but perhaps the message is (or, at least, the growing amount […] Read more

Mother Reading a Book to Her Two Children

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Sing and read with your child

... it sets them up for a life of farming success

By Helen Lammers-Helps January 9, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes When you play pat-a-cake with your baby, you might think you’re just enjoying a fun game. However, child experts say rhymes, songs, and finger play actually help our children develop early literacy skills and build the foundations for a lifetime of learning. Language and literacy do more than open up the possibility of academic achievement, […] Read more

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‘A Bigger Prize’ author ruthless in the race to get attention

Competition isn't everything, differentiation holds the key

By Andrew Allentuck October 10, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better Than the Competition (Doubleday Canada, 2014, 391 pp.)$ 32.95. It’s the bedrock of economics, and it’s all about how you compete in markets to sell at the best price you can get, and to buy at the lowest price you can pay. Two centuries ago, Adam Smith […] Read more

In Ontario alone, Ogryzlo’s $10 challenge would pump $2.4 billion more to food producers.

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Author builds a consumer connection to farmers with ‘local food’

Meeting Lynn Ogryzlo in the heart of Toronto’s food district, we wonder if maybe the chasm between farmers and consumers isn’t as deep as we thought

By Steven Biggs September 26, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bag-toting shoppers amble past me on either side as I snag a table near the bakery. It’s already 2 p.m., and the picked-through bakery racks confirm that it’s too late to get the best-of-the-best fresh food at Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market. Even so, the place is still a hive of food lovers. That’s because by […] Read more

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Grow from within: Three timely reads for farms at a crossroads

Sometimes, that streak of independence in farmers is simple bullheadedness. Other times, it’s business smarts at their sharpest

By Andrew Allentuck August 21, 2014

Reading Time: 6 minutes Books Reviewed Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success (HarperCollins, 2010) By Matthew Syed Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance (Princeton University Press, 2010) By Boris Groysberg Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less (Random House, 2014) By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao When the big […] Read more

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Why nice guys do finish first

Books: The tastemaker

This is thriving?

Sing and read with your child

‘A Bigger Prize’ author ruthless in the race to get attention

Author builds a consumer connection to farmers with ‘local food’

Grow from within: Three timely reads for farms at a crossroads

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