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From Olive Roots to Maple Trees
George's Journey From Greek Soil to Canadian Success
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George Theodorou was just fourteen years old when he defied his father’s wishes and left his family in Greece to work at sea. After travelling the world on cargo ships, he began his mandatory service in the navy, a gruelling experience that built...
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From Skid Row to CEO
Against All Odds
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Nothing is impossible when you learn to embrace your full potential. No one knows that better than John Quee. After a violent and abusive childhood, John started his adult life with nothing. He slept in the street and turned to the "work halls"...
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PharmaChoice Canada Story
The Magic in the Numbers!
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How does a banner go from 26 independent pharmacists in Atlantic Canada to 1100+ across the country and $3 billion in retail sales? With a bit of guts, powerful relationships with people around Canada, and a steadfast focus on what matters:...
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Money Grows on Trees
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Founder of Pioneer Log Homes and creator of reality HGTV series Timber Kings and Carver Kings, Bryan Reid believes that anyone, including the youth of today, can become successful in life and business with the right attitude and hard work. “If I...
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Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The odds were stacked against me from the start. Raised in poverty with a father who rejected his children, my teachers and the police were...
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Leadership in Crisis and Crisis in Leadership
Lessons for Change & Opportunities to Improve
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When we hear the word “leadership,” we often associate it with the workplace, but some of the best examples of leadership can be found in the home or among loved ones. In Leadership in Crisis and Crisis in Leadership, Dr. Ganesh Narine delves...
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Walk With A Purpose
The John Volken Story From Dishwasher to Multi-Millionaire, Then Gave It All Away...
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Horatio Alger wrote in the nineteenth century about impoverished boys rising from humble backgrounds to lives of achievement through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. Alger should have met John Volken. He would have loved him, as...
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The Handshake
Life and Leadership Lessons From a Poor Farm Kid to a Manager in the Oil and Gas Industry
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The Handshake started as a book for the Author’s Children and Grandchildren. The stories and lessons start in the 1960s, with him growing up in rural Saskatchewan, then entering the rough-and-tumble oil and gas industry of the late 1970s, and...
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From Nothing To 90
Failures, Successes, Betrayal and Overcoming Doubt
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In From Nothing to 90, Will Klein chronicles his life from hardscrabble beginnings as an adopted child in a Saskatchewan family struggling through the “Dirty Thirties” to early success as a newsboy and onto great business achievement despite...
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The Pacesetter
The Complete Story
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Who was responsible for the these Great American Landmarks: The Indy 500, The Dixie Highway, The Lincoln Highway, Miami Beach and Montauk New York?
