One of my main companies has a winter retreat for some of its brokers every year. Usually it's in Niagara on the Lake but this year it was in Toronto downtown at the 4 seasons. Its always good. They good a really good speaker, review some of the things the companies done over the past year and look forward to the next and just inform it's brokers and interact. Always profitable. Anyway, they usually have a nice dinner and some type of theme... I've determined I am not cultured at all. They had dinner hosted in some museum across fromt the ROM. And then they had some world famous canadian chef, Jamie Kennedy prepare our meal for us and he came out and discuessed the meal a head of time, tell us where the chickens were from, what farm the beef was from, where the veggies were grown and how none were exposed to bad feed and that it was all natural and stuff. There's something to be said about going to the freezer, popping out a a frozen chicken filet and cooking it up. I have no idea what farm it grew up on... and i tend not to think of the food i'm eating as pets roaming around on a farm. All in all tho, very nice meal, i felt important but slightly out of place
One of the speakers they had was a guy by the name Jeremy Gutsche, host of Trend Hunter TV and the website Trendhunter.com He's written a book called exploiting Chaos and all about how some of the largest companies in north america were actually founded and started during times of recession. He also talk about buying habits and just trends in general. His website trendhunter.com get Ten Million hits a month. Pretty interesting stuff. I ended up getting his book... i would recommend it.
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