Helene Darroze, who went on to run a Michelin-starred restaurant in London, England, was born to a family who operated another Michelin-starred restaurant in the 1990s. She continued her heritage, a celebration if ever there was one, after the family-run restaurant in Villeneuve-de-Marsan closed in 1999 and she opened her next bistro in Paris. Dining in that first restaurant in southwestern France was so enjoyable that today it still remains happily lodged in my head, heart and taste buds because, even in France where fine food is an expected joy, Helene Darroze holds a very special place. So special that...
Syd Jackson, CEO of Manufacturer’s Life Insurance Co., was the most playful chief executive officer I’ve ever met. The first time I interviewed him in 1984 he plunked his six-foot-three frame down on his carpeted office floor and bounced around like a boy demonstrating how he received his artillery training. Using his coffee table for a landscape he added various items from his desk to act as mock-up artillery pieces and potential targets. Beyond his fun-loving side, Jackson was one of the first CEOs in Canada to actively promote women with three among his top executives. “It’s not an impressive...
February 2! It’s Groundhog Day. Local radio says the groundhog saw his shadow so there’ll be six more weeks of winter. If the rest of winter is like recent days we’re all going to be stir crazy. But Groundhog Day brought something else to mind – the movie starring Bill Murray, one of my Top Ten films of all time as Groundhog Day keeps repeating for him. He woos a woman and robs an armoured truck among other activities. I got thinking about my top ten movies of all time of which I give Groundhog Day a full-hearted position. Here...
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