Don’t disappoint your family or friends by getting stuck in the office. Here are some tips to ensure you get to take your vacation on your schedule.
adminJuly 10, 2013
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Outdoor cooking and entertaining is all about getting people together, and who does that better than the Greeks? Rustic Greek food is simple, fresh, tasty and made for sharing. You can transform any backyard into a Greek Isle by serving up this splendid Mediterranean cuisine.
adminJune 27, 2013
Whisk your guests off on a magical journey to the Greek Islands right in your own backyard. For décor, use colors that evoke the pristine waters of the Aegean Sea, deep blue with a splash of turquoise, the landscape dotted with white cubed architecture, and the fresh sea air.
adminJune 27, 2013
An astounding 70 percent of employees are not engaged or inspired by their work. Clearly management bears a large part of the blame. In my upcoming book Upgrade (McGraw-Hill, September, 2013), I write about business’s leadership crisis. The traditional top-down approach, in which the boss sits at the top of the pyramid and orders the underlings to work harder, is no longer flying.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Rana Florida and sisters known as the Motown Lowdown, answered relationship questions every Tuesday in the Detroit News.
adminJune 25, 2013
Leading up to Canada Day, the Huffington Post blog team asked prominent Canadians what they would change about one aspect of its country.
adminJune 25, 2013
Bring the beach to your own backyard with a seaside theme party that’s oh so chic for summer. Learn how to create the look!
adminJune 21, 2013
HGTV.ca’s hostess extraordinaire, Rana Florida, throws a cool, casual pizza party for family and friends.
adminJune 21, 2013
The coasts of the six New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut are well known for their summertime clam bakes. But you don’t need an east coast beach to enjoy one. All you need is fresh seafood, a bunch of friends, and a great big pot to put on the grill.
adminJune 20, 2013
You don’t need a beach or a fire pit to host a New England style clam bake, just a BBQ grill and a large pot. What easier way is there to entertain at home than to throw a big pile of lobsters, potatoes, chicken, andouille sausage, little neck clams, cherry stone clams, shrimp, and corn on the cob on the grill?
adminJune 20, 2013
Richard’s interview in the knowledge section of Seoul’s leading business paper,Maeil. It is an in deprh and inspiring story sharing Richard’s insights into how to help cities nurture creative environment, including brain circulation.
adminJune 20, 2013
Today’s highly mobile knowledge workers–the key to economic growth in a global economy where the talent and skills of the workforce is a prime difference-maker–choose where to live more for the qualities communities offer than for specific job-related reasons.
adminJune 19, 2013
With smartphones, people can snap a #Selfie and share it with their network of friends or followers in an instant. With Facebook, Instagram, PicMonkey, Twitpic, TumblrPic and Pic Stitch everyone can be their own photographer, artistic director, and graphic designer, choosing the desired filter and crop, adding text, icons, and Emojicons. Everyone is curating their own content.
adminJune 17, 2013
Why go out for pizza when you can convert your BBQ grill into a wood burning pizza oven for an entertaining and delicious ‘make your own pizza party’ right at home?
adminJune 14, 2013
Why go out for pizza when you can simply turn your backyard bbq grill into a wood burning oven to get the perfect pie?
adminJune 14, 2013
Summer is right around the corner, and we all know what that means: soon it will be time to fire up our backyard, deck, and poolside BBQs. There’s no better way to entertain friends and family on a warm summer night than with tasty food hot off the grill. Here are some hosting tips from Rana.
Design and creativity are everywhere, so why not incorporate both into your entertaining?
adminJune 7, 2013
From the Amalfi Coast and French Riveria to the California and New England coasts, there are beaches for every taste and style. Summer is almost here, so why not entertain your friends and family with a beach blast, laid back and casual yet with just the right touch of chic? It doesn’t matter how far inland you are–with enough design and creativity, you can be anywhere your imagination takes you.
adminJune 7, 2013
There’s no better way to entertain friends and family on a warm summer night than with tasty food hot off the grill.Design and creativity are everywhere, so why not incorporate both into your entertaining? With a bit of imagination and these simple tips, anyone can pull it off.
adminJune 7, 2013
Dr Richard Florida, the Cultural Innovation keynote speaker at EBN Congress, answers some questions ahead of his address at the Congress on May 30. (First appeared in Ulster Business magazine.
adminMay 29, 2013
Richard and Rana Florida host GO WILD, an evening celebrating Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works.
adminMay 20, 2013
Richard and Rana Florida host GO WILD, an evening celebrating Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works.
adminMay 20, 2013
Everyone loves tacos! From food trucks to gourmet eateries, this Mexican street snack is all the rage. So why not turn a traditional backyard BBQ into a fun and favourful authentic Mexican grill?
adminMay 20, 2013
Long the epitome of a humane, prosperous, diverse, caring city, Toronto has at long last captured the world’s attention – but not in the way that anyone would want. Mayor Rob Ford’s latest scandal has drawn headlines in the New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair, making him the butt of jokes on talk shows like Real Time with Bill Maher, and even on the sports network ESPN.
adminMay 20, 2013
You don’t have to be a Marxist to wonder if capitalism has run its course. Though the stock market is soaring the economic recovery is jobless, millions remain un- or underemployed, and the economies of the world are mired in slow growth. At the same time, the gap between the rich and the poor is wider that it’s been in more than a century.Before we can treat capitalism’s symptoms, we have to understand its disease. We are in the midst of the greatest, most thorough economic transformation in all of history.
adminMay 17, 2013
As summer nights approach, many of us look forward to entertaining in our backyards. Whether it is a celebration, a dinner party or an intimate gathering of friends, it’s paramount that guests feel relaxed and welcome. One way to do this is to theme your evening.
adminMay 15, 2013
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. One of Canada’s most notable art deco homes is featured in part 2 of the home of Kate and David Daniels of Toronto.
adminMay 15, 2013
HGTV : Creative Spaces: Kate & David Daniels and One of Canada’s Most Notable Art Deco Homes, Part I
Creative Spaces: an exclusive look inside some of North America’s most remarkable homes with Rana Florida. One of Canada’s most notable art deco homes is featured in part 1 of the home of Kate and David Daniels of Toronto.
adminMay 15, 2013
To get a leg up on the competition, here are ten job hunting tips for college graduates to ensure a successful career launch.
adminMay 13, 2013
The May 3 Denver South Economic Development Partnership luncheon drew Gov. John Hickenlooper to introduce the speaker and attracted an enthusiastic, capacity crowd to the DTC Hyatt Regency ballroom. The governor came to provide the Colorado context for the event’s featured speaker, Dr. Richard Florida.
adminMay 13, 2013
Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, Jérôme Sans and Richard and Rana Florida host an event at ABC Kitchen in NY.
adminMay 9, 2013
Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, Jérôme Sans and Richard and Rana Florida hosted an event to celebrate Art Basel and welcome Turkish artists Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, also known as :mentalKLINIK, as the newest members of the LM100 family, selected by Sans, Le Méridien’s cultural curator.
adminMay 9, 2013
Richard and Rana Florida have a swish party pad, a sense of whimsy and interesting friends. But their best dinner-party trick may be keeping their cool in chaos.
adminMay 9, 2013
Rana Florida’s tips on how to throw a great election night party for the 2012 U.S. Presidential race.
adminMay 9, 2013
Drew Green, CEO and founder of SHOP.CA, is proud to welcome Rana Florida to SHOP.CA’s Board of Advisors. Florida is the CEO of the Creative Class Group, an advisory services firm that provides strategy, research, and consulting to businesses, communities and governments worldwide.
adminMay 8, 2013
Rana Florida interviews Robert Hammond, co-founder of the non-profit Friends of the High Line with its goals at first to save the elevated railway, then to transform it into a vibrant public space in NY.
adminMay 8, 2013
Considering the importance of immigration reform and the high emotions roused by the Boston bombing, it’s important to look at what we actually know about the connections (or the lack thereof) between immigration, crime and American cities.
adminMay 7, 2013
Toronto has not always had good press – not least from Canadians themselves.
But even the locals have to admit that the place they love to loathe is having a moment. Mark Jones reports on how the city is being rebuilt,and meets key figures including Richard Florida in this renaissance.
adminMay 6, 2013
Richard Florida speaks at The Creativity Conference in Washington, D.C. in a panel on Invention, Innovation, Competitiveness – Creative Industries and the New American Economy alongside President Bill Clinton.
adminApril 26, 2013
Thirty-seven million Americans at 3.5 million workplaces will participate in the 20-year tradition of Take Your Kids to Work Day this Thursday. The goal of the day is not to transform the workplace into a circus or a playground, but to get children interested in what the workplace really is.
adminApril 26, 2013
”The Creativity index appeared to be one of the best metrics to understand sales performance at Cirque. And correlation are strong, therefor we will be now using this metric to anticipate sales performance and better forecast.
Alexandre AlleMarket Insight Advisor, Cirque du Soleil