Have you noticed how BS has been slowly but surely disappearing from some of the places it used to call home in our lives?
Case in point: Canada’s big life insurance companies are finally starting to simplify their businesses. But don’t take our word for it:
Fact: Startups are starting faster than ever before.
Fact: Startups are disappearing faster than ever before.
While they never told us that directly, this second fact was likely the reason why a couple of the cofounders from a new startup recently reached out to us. Not long into our first chat, they asked, “What would you suggest we do to make our startup last?”
Contrary to popular belief, folks who are paid to think often have a hard time proving that they’re doing the work.
// Go ahead, take some time to digest that. //
Consider what happened during a meeting between the board of directors at a major Canadian corporation, Canadian Tire, and its CEO, Michael Medline. Also present at the meeting was the controlling shareholder, Martha Billes.
You know that when scissors meet paper, paper loses. But do you know what happens when facts meet a story?
More often than not, when facts meet a story, facts lose. Case in point: the Brexit hullabaloo, or how Britain recently divorced the European Union (EU).
