A KEY DRIVER - UNEMPLOYMENT - CANADA

A key driver of unemployment is the failure of our education system to prepare individuals for the digital age.

Our best jobs require the ability to process complex knowledge and information - in real time.

The newspaper print industry is an excellent example of this shortfall.

The more serious deficit is our cultural economic bias to consume.

We need to move to a culture of personal growth through innovative curiosity which leads to productivity.

As long as "What I own is who I am" prevails as a motivator unemployment will remain debilitating.

A final note.

The top down control pyramid in which our organizations operate is no longer relevant as an organizational structure for a knowledge based economy.

A collaborative team based platform is a solution.

We are a long way from having this transition take place.

Respectfully,

Dan Zwicker
Toronto.

BEYOND RISK - FINANCIAL INTEGRITY THROUGH FINANCIAL LITERACY

Beyond Risk is about people and their views on money....borne of over 30 years of front line experience and engagement in the arena of exponential corporate growth through financial practice building under 'fire' in a lifetime passion......the assuring of the financial value of our time.....to allow for the completion of our personal and business financial objectives. It is about character, integrity, people and their often complex and conflicting attitudes towards money.....its accumulation.....its preservation and its utility. It is about the leadership of high performance professionals who are committed to managing the capital risk and the lifetime financial well being of their families, business associates and clients. It is about coaching 'Olympian' class high performance empowerment. Above all it is about ethical choice in every facet of decision making and execution. It is remarkable that of all the basic life skill related subjects that we include in our children's early curriculum financial literacy is not one of them.......given that we live in a money economy. It is said that we each have a "Money Personality". Nothing could be more accurate and more life defining.

Dan Zwicker
Toronto