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SmartAB™ Wisdom #57: How I Cured Academic Integrity Headaches Caused By AI


SmartAB™ Wisdom #56: Why Elon Musk Finally Admits The Failure Of Autonomous Driving (AD)


SmartAB™ Wisdom #55: Why Some Industries Still Fail Total Quality Management (TQM) Objectives


SmartAB™ Wisdom #54: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 4: It All Boils Down To A Single Word…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #53: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 3: Asymmetric Negotiations


SmartAB™ Wisdom #53: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 3: Asymmetric Negotiations


SmartAB™ Wisdom #52: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 2: Hardware To The Rescue…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #51: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 1: My Humble Neural Networks Beginnings…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #50: The VC Returns Are Dismal. Can CVCs Do A Better Job?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #49: The 2024 Death Knell To The Autonomous Driving Coffin?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #48: How Could A Bad COPQ Make This Leading Telco… Lose Billions – A True Story!


SmartAB™ Wisdom #47: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 2


SmartAB™ Wisdom #46: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 1


SmartAB™ Wisdom #45: Are Lawyers Missing The Greatest Business Opportunity Of This Decade?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #44: I Can’t Force CEOs To Use My “KEE” To The Gates Of Profitability. But Their BODs Can…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #43: Your Startup's Success Depends On COMBINED PERSONALITIES Of The... Founding Team


SmartAB™ Wisdom #42: What Can Charlie Chaplin Teach Lawyers About AI And Self-Driving Cars?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #41: Still Guessing The Best Age To Launch A Successful Startup?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #40: Holly Branson – And The Complexities Of Passing The Entrepreneurial Torch…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #39: The Norwegian Push-Pull… With The New York State Of Mind...


SmartAB™ Wisdom #38: What Can Successful Fishermen Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #37: Sir, Are You Going To Buy This Monkey?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #36: Truckin’ In The Time Of ChatGPT…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #35: Would You Buy A Bottle Of Beer for $80,000?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #34: One year ago, I Reinvented Advisory Boards. Today, I am changing the VC world - forever…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #33: SMBs Need Help. And We Can Deliver Such Help Swiftly & Effectively - In One Fell Swoop…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #32: How To Boost IP Filings Using Common-Sense Push/Pull Strategies


SmartAB™ Wisdom #31: The 3 Most Important Due Diligence Questions To Ask – Before Investing In A Seed-Stage Startups…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #30: VCs, CVCs, Accelerators, Incubators & Venture Studios – Is That All There Is?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #29: Call It Coaching, Mentoring, Advising, Consulting – As Long As You Have An Open Mind, It’s All Semantics…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #28: How To Lose $3 billion, $5 billion, and even $824 billion in one year - by not listening to my advice…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #27: What Can I Say Except You’re Welcome, Elon Musk – Thank You Dwayne Johnson!


SmartAB™ Wisdom #26 - Is Elon Musk Going To Do It?


SmartAB™ Wisdom #25: Don't Go To Business With Your Eyes Wide Shot…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #24: Venture Capital In Time Of Arrogance And Disconnect


SmartAB™ Wisdom #23: Avoid Metaverse Halloween Carnage


SmartAB™ Wisdom #22: Smile... The Invisalign Way


SmartAB™ Wisdom #21: Why Elon Musk's Political Idealism Is Detached From Reality


SmartAB™ Wisdom #20: Accept That We Are Not Living In A Perfect World - Europe Needs Canadian Energy Now…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #19: Learn From Microsoft & Google Mistakes – They Can Afford Losing Billions, You Can’t… 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #18: Read My AI Book – It’s FREE To All The Paid Subscribers To SmartAB™


SmartAB™ Wisdom #17: Look At Yourself In A Mirror & Ask The Following Questions…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #16: Learn The ENTREPRENEURIAL ARBITRAGE And Use It To Avoid Losses…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #15: Learn How To Pivot And Never Look Back…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #14: Join the most EXCLUSIVE Cleantech Entrepreneurship in the world!


SmartAB™ Wisdom #13: Get A Haircut At Your Local Barber - Not An Advice On Finding A Co-Founder…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #12: Work Smarter, Not Harder


SmartAB™ Wisdom #11: Never Give Up - Even During The VC Carnage of 2022…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #10: Follow This Simple Recommendation & Win - It's Easier Than You Think


SmartAB™ Wisdom #9 - Apply The Sutton Rule To Survive The Venture Capital Crash…


SmartAB™ Wisdom #8 -  Focus On What You Can Control, Not On What You Can’t…


SmartAB™ Wisdom # 7 - Turn Ideas Into A Successful Business


SmartAB™ Wisdom #6 -Learn From The Housing Bubbles

 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #5 - Master The Speed Of Thought

 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #4 - Cozy Up To CVCs

 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #3 - Add IQ To Your Subscription Model

 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #2 - Embrace Metaverse

 


SmartAB™ Wisdom #1 - Avoid Taking Debt!

 


SmartAB™ - Reinventing Advisory Boards


Atlantic Crossing Redux?…


NATO - In 2 Words, Please


Bravo Primus & Congratulations On A Job Well Done!


NATO – It’s Time To Flex The Muscle…


What's Your Case?


The Curse Of Doing Nothing


Green Hydrogen – More Than Meets The Eye…


To All The Davids Fighting Their Goliaths…


Two Heads Are Better Than One


What Does It Take To Be A Mensch?


Redefining Venture Capital With Equity Crowdfunding


How Will Be COP26 Remembered?


To Do, Or Not To Do An MBA


Canada Is The World’s Greatest Manufacturer Of… HOUSING BUBBLES…


How Do You Know When To Use AI?


To Be, Or Not To Be… A Consultant – Part 2


To Be, Or Not To Be… A Consultant – Part 1


OK, Google – Drive…


Elections & The Canadian Housing Bubble


Ten CEO Advisory Gifts Of Wisdom – Part 2


Ten CEO Advisory Gifts Of Wisdom – Part 1


LinkedIn – The “Mother” Of All Pitches?


Beware Of The Tight-Squeeze On Mid-Size VCs


Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 4


Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 3


Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 2


Ten Advisory Board Gifts of Wisdom – Part 1


Reinventing GovR&D - From The Silence Of The Lambs To The Roar Of A Lion…


My Story: SPACs – Wharton, Warts And All…


My Story: Relational AND Transactional Business Of Nuclear Medicine


My Story: Keyword Spotting & The Magic Of Closing The Deal


My Story: The Power Of The OPPOSITES


1001... Entrepreneurial Tales


CGE's Future - Take Three...


CGE's Present - Take Two...


Did Bell’s HQ Move To Mars?


CGE's Past - Take 1, The Director's Cut...


Reinventing BOD - LeanBOD To The Rescue


Chapter 9 – AI & Job Creation Using Smart Economic Policies


Reinventing Associations


Reinventing IBM – A True Story


Content Is Eating The World


Bravo Amazon – KDP Self-Publishing Rocks!


Advisory Board ABCs – Part 4


Advisory Board ABCs – Part 3


Advisory Board ABCs – Part 2


How Important Are Advisory Boards, Anyway? – Part 1


Reinventing Virgin Atlantic 


Reinventing MEC


Nadya – World’s Best Reinvention Officer


REINVENTING TSX – A True Story


Bill Gates: We Have A Problem!


Reinventing XXX


Reinventing GoDaddy


Reinventing Bombardier


Reinventing ALW


Reinventing Boeing


Reinventing Indigo


Reinventing Booking


BOD COVID-19 Impact


To Do What It Takes


Greening the Oil Sands


Nonprofits Post COVID-19


What Can Healthcare Workers Teach CEOs


To Mask Or Not To Mask


An Open Letter To The Premier


For whom the Bell tolls?


Unless your name is Moses...  


Coronavirus Data Analytics


Balancing 3 Pillars of Success


Finding The Balance In Data Analytics


Why COP25 Failed And How To Fix It


How Warm Is Your Pitch Anyway?


Capitalism 2.0 - Part 3


Capitalism 2.0 - Part 2


Capitalism 2.0 - Part 1


LeanCVC™ - A Match Made In Heaven


AI Boogeyman Book - Available on Amazon! 


The Prophet


AI BOOGEYMAN - Who Is This Book Targeting?


AI BOOGEYMAN - Dispelling Fake News About Job Losses


How To Turn Gatekeepers Into CEO’s Greatest Asset


Canada-Israel Weed Nirvana


Democracy Is Coming To A Financial Fraud Near You


How To Eliminate Billions In Credit Card Fraud By Lifting An Index Finger


Can AI Help When Thieves Like Your Luxury Car The Most?


You Can’t Win It, If Not In It...


Utility 2.0: AI-Driven Digital Transformation That Changes Everything…


Are We All Barking Up The Wrong Trees?


30 Entrepreneurial Gifts Of Wisdom – You Can Take To The Bank ...

 


Did INSEAD Just Bring Us French Revolution Of The 21st Century?

 


Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is Google Fairest Of Them All?


Can $17 Investment Double $15B R&D Budget?


Is Jeff Bezos Darth Vader of Retail Industry?


And You Thought We Lost Manufacturing Jobs Forever


Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due – Steve Blank


If I could only offer a single advice to a progressive CEO


What Deep Learning Is Good For


How To Turn Corporate Venture Capital Into A Magnet


Flood Victims Sympathy Is Not Enough - Time for Flood Prevention 2.0


A train ride from Kitchener to Timbuktu, no wait, I meant ....Toronto


Deadly Marketing Mistake And Two-Step Solution To Avoid Losses


“Kill Switch & The Winter of Our Discontent” - Part 2


“Kill Switch & The Winter of Our Discontent” - Part 1

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After The Flood

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When Encryption Is Used By Terrorists

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Please don't send me on Mars

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3 Tips to Avoid Startup Funeral

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Self-driving Hype vs Self-parking Reality

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Are you ready to send your kid on a school bus WITHOUT a driver?

Plan B Ventures: Brilliant Teams, Lousy Business Models
Plan B Ventures - The Last Call...

AI, Autopilot, Artificial Intelligence
On AI, Autopilots, Self-Driving Cars….and the Bee Question

Hamlet - Leasing Financing for Solar PV DG Systems
To Lease, or not to Lease, that is the Question

Storytelling and Thought Leadership, Innovative Thinking
Is Thought Leadership Dead?

Branding Utility 2.0 - Smart Grid & Renewable Energy
Branding & Rebranding Utility 2.0 - The Times They Are A-Changin'

3 cents Solar PV Financing PPA - Utility Scale
Does 3c/kWh solar PV tariff still make economic sense?

SunEdison Bankruptcy Financial Analysis
SunEdison – were they lead to, or pushed off the cliff?

BOD - Board of Directors Competencies
On Board of Directors – And Why Competence Is Not Enough

Housing Markets Canadian Housing Bubble
The Canadian Housing Bubble – And How To Fix It At One Fell Swoop

Money Corporate Venture Capital
Corporate Venture Capital – The Most Underutilized Factor Endowment Of Corporate Giants

On Encryption and Finding the Balance
On Encryption - And The Need For Finding The Balance

Keyword Spotting The Art of Alternative Business Models
Keyword Spotting - The Art Of Listening & Observing

Surface Phone by Microsoft - Windows Dillema
The Surface Phone Debacle

Opposites - Under what condition the assumptions are wrong
The Inquiring Mind

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