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How We Can Win
- And What Happens to Us and Our Country If We Don't
- Narrated by: John Cleland
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Our kids are smart, our banks are sound, our health care system is humane, our democracy is stable - but technological change is about to disrupt our economy and threaten our way of life. Canadians aren't ready for the race to the future. Can we still catch up - or even win?
Yes, says Anthony Lacavera, one of Canada's most successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. But we need to change the way we think and talk about our own abilities - dream bigger, aim higher, and go for gold, not bronze. We also need to change the way we do business. Our dominant business culture, Lacavera believes, is fundamentally unCanadian: traditional, backward-looking, insular, timid, greedy, unoriginal - everything that Canadians themselves are not. And that unCanadian business culture, protected by outmoded regulations and government policies, is stifling our economic growth. It dumps roadblocks in the paths of entrepreneurs who want to build the kind of powerhouse businesses that will create jobs and fuel our economy.
Anthony Lacavera faced those roadblocks himself when he was building WIND - an epic battle against the big three telecommunications giants in Canada. But he's certain we have the talent and the brains to tear those roadblocks down. He gives us vivid portraits of some of Canada's most important natural resources: our talented, innovative entrepreneurs, who want to change the world for the better (and, yes, make money while they're at it). But we are shipping far too many of them to the United States, gift-wrapped in our tax dollars. They don't want to leave - they're forced out because it's just too difficult to build big, bold businesses in Canada.
How We Can Win explains what we need to do to keep them here and what all Canadians must do to ensure our future prosperity. Our biggest problem is not that we are a small country but that we think too small.
We can be a nation of big dreamers and bigger doers. Not by aping Silicon Valley but by focusing on uniquely Canadian strengths and then doubling down on them. If we bet aggressively on ourselves and our future rather than clinging to the status quo, we will create a new, more solid economic foundation - one that allows us to win the race to the future without leaving home.
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- Maria Corina Pardo
- 2018-01-29
Amazing!
Loved this book, it should be read by every Canadian regardless of age, profession or number of generations in Canada.
Reminded me a lot of Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg's renounced book about women in leadership. Just like professional women, Canada needs to "sit at the table" and stop perceiving ambition and business as dirty words.
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- Claire McInerney
- 2018-09-11
Must Read for Canadians
I finally understand why things are the way they are in Canada and why we aren't more developed than we are. Also why I had to move to Asia to find a job that will pay me a livable wage ..
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- Stacy Richter
- 2018-04-28
Worthwhile for any Canadian in Business
I love hearing the back story behind building one of Canada's biggest tech companies. We often only get to see the front end success & polish but miss out on the grind that gets it there. Anthony shares a ton of insight on what he feels we need to do for Canada to live up to its potential.
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- James Beaudoin
- 2023-05-24
Pretty interesting
Was excellent up until the end, the view/take on banking, AI aged liked milk unfortunately
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