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Parker’s Toronto, High Tea at King Eddy, no. 2
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This Sunday was an alumnae gathering of university friends—“High Tea” offered each week at the King Edward (Meridian) Hotel on King Street. The King Edward has always been one of my favourites because of its rare (for Toronto) Edwardian architecture. Most of our older buildings are Victorian, that is, overly ornate and rather scary-looking…
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Married to the politician: Musings of a political spouse by Beth Parker, #1
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I had fallen asleep after a succession of early morning meetings and final deadlines. I heard the back door open and shut then with well-honed mother-intution thought to myself, “Ah, my son is home from school.” Another clue, our dog didn’t bark, in fact, I doubt that he even moved. About 20 minutes later…
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Beth Parker, former President of CAWEE, guest speak at women’s conference in Trinidad
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 21, 2010: Beth Parker, writer and immediate past president of the Canadian Association of Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (CAWEE) will speak at a conference focusing on the role impact of women in a changing corporate environment. Beth has been invited to the November 2 conference at the request of trade…
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EMBRACE THE CLUTTER: Help, I’m trapped inside a family Tip 1
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Clutter is now the 8th Deadly Sin. If you want to misbehave these days you dont need to cheat on a spouse or rob a bank you simply have to hoard too much stuff. It starts with the premise that order is good and clutter is bad; and clutter that leads to losing track…
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ELEVATOR PITCH MEETS CLARITY
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This may come as a shock to some, but some of the documents I read are sometiimes very long and not terribly interesting. I dont fault a business for being complicated. Heart surgery is complicated, and that is a good thing. But often I reach the final paragraph and I still dont know what…
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CLEAR UNCOMPLICATED WRITING FIGHTS BUSINESS RISK!
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It’s official. I read it in Harvard Business Review (I always wanted to say that!). Apparently when the wise folk recently surveyed all of the ways that companies mismanage risk, “poor communications” came out as number five! The article goes on to attribute such failure to our current economic mess. “Communications failures have certainly…
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MY OLD PAL WIL (SHAKESPEARE, THAT IS)
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Please be warned, this blog may sound a tad nerdy. I had the best intentions following New Year’s day. I headed off to Indigo to find an inspiring business book. After spending an eternity staring at the rows of book spines, I began to see double, even triple. Every title promised the best “success…