CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Still live at #WBF11. The speaker now is Tamara Erickson who is speaking about what happens at different ages. The 11-15 year old time period tends to influence the lifetime. We are influenced by the news, our parents, our national context, our religion etc. Because we share the same national/news context then people of the same age share a lot of commonality.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I am saddened by the death of my friend Steve Jobs. Perhaps not a friend but a business acquaintance. I met him several times and traded calls and emails over the years. EMJ (My Canadian technology distribution company) and later SYNNEX sold hundreds of millions of dollars of Apple products. We first signed Apple in the early 1990s when "Apple was going bankrupt".

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Still reporting from #WBF11. The sessions are awesome and inspirational. I had lunch with the people putting on C2-MTL , a creativity conference being held in Montreal in May of next year. Their program looks great. Cohosted with Circ du soleil so should be inspirational. Hopefully they will ask me to join them as either a blogger or presenter. Listening to Gary Hamel - visiting professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School.

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