The Boss of You

In the ten years Emira and I have been run­ning our busi­ness together, we’ve devel­oped a high level of ESP. We often joke that we are inter­change­able, i.e. if you talk to one of us, we can pretty well chan­nel what the other might say in response. How­ever, there are also plenty of things we […]

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Lauren’s post ear­lier this week about fam­ily busi­nesses in peril got me think­ing about a recent deci­sion made by our City Coun­cil (that’s Vancouver’s City Coun­cil) to can­cel “car free days” in my local neigh­bour­hood. What do car free days have to do with small busi­ness? Give me a minute to explain.
For those who aren’t […]

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The eco­nomic woes we’re fac­ing right now feel awfully famil­iar.
See, Emira and I started our busi­ness in Feb­ru­ary 2000; by the end of that sum­mer, our indus­try (and in fact all things web-related) had expe­ri­enced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and fam­ily won­dered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong […]

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I love Danielle Laporte. She’s an awe­some, cre­ative, wicked-smart woman who we’ve been for­tu­nate to know for many years. She’s the co-author of Style State­ment: Live by Your Own Design, which she wrote with her for­mer busi­ness part­ner, Car­rie McCarthy; and now she’s work­ing under the moniker White Hot Truth, writ­ing, speak­ing, and work­ing with […]

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I’m tak­ing a hop down to San Fran­cisco next week for a con­fer­ence and have tacked on a few extra days ahead of time to explore the city. There was a time when I reg­u­larly visit San Fran and the Bay Area, but that time feels like for­ever ago and so I’m look­ing for recommendations […]

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Do you travel for busi­ness? It’s not some­thing we do a lot of — most of our clients are local — but for those who are on the road a lot, effi­cient plan­ning and effec­tive use of your travel time make a huge dif­fer­ence to the return on your travel-dollar invest­ment.
Our friend and esteemed colleague, […]

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I got sucked into the New York Times’ wage gap graph because of the title: “Why Is Her Pay­check Smaller?” Turns out there isn’t room on the page for a mean­ing­ful answer to that ques­tion, but the info­graphic itself is very, very inter­est­ing.
As usual, the NYT design­ers have done a great job of dis­play­ing complex […]

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We’ve got two news items up on the Raised Eye­brow blog that it strikes me might be of inter­est to some of y’all Boss of You readers:

We’re hir­ing (a sec­ond posi­tion!) — this time we’re look­ing for a Junior Web Designer. Know any­one?
We have desks avail­able for rental in our beau­ti­ful new office space, which […]

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[Cross-posted from the Raised Eye­brow blog…]
Things have been so hop­ping busy at Raised Eye­brow that we hardly have time to blog… and now that we’re set­tled into our new office space and have a bit more elbow room, we’re ready to add a new mem­ber to our team!
We’re look­ing for a Junior Client Man­ager to help […]

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We’ve received some great press for The Boss of You lately, and I want to share a few high­lights. But before we get to that, let’s take a quick swerve back in time…
Some of you may remem­ber that back in May we got a chance to meet four-time world cham­pion fig­ure skater Kurt Brown­ing when we […]

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