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Learning from experienced business owners profoundly impacts leadership and business success. It builds authentic confidence through real failures, sharpens intuitive decision-making, teaches crisis navigation, fosters genuine networking, and instills resilience. Their lived wisdom accelerates growth, reduces expensive trial-and-error, and shapes principled, adaptive leaders far more effectively than theory alone

 In this episode, I had a discussion with with David Granovsky — President, CEO, and owner of Atlantic Coated Papers Ltd., a market leader in high-performance protective packaging serving the food, pharmaceutical, construction, and industrial sectors. Before building ACP into an innovation-driven powerhouse, David led the Flexible Packaging division at Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. He’s also an active angel investor in the tech space, co-founder of the Grand Slam Pro Am tennis charity event, an avid hockey player, and a highly accomplished tennis competitor.

Here's some of the takeaways:

• Agility in business allows smaller companies to compete with larger ones.
• Risk-taking is essential for growth and success in business.
• Teaching children about business from a young age is crucial.
• Effective communication is key to building a successful team.
• Canada has a strong potential for growth with its resources and talent.
• The current education system needs to focus more on finance and technology.
• Opportunities in business often arise unexpectedly and should be seized. Canada has a wealth of talent but needs to focus on STEM education.
• Policy reform is needed in industries like dairy and telecom.
• Hiring the right people is essential for business success.
• The future of work will be shaped by technology and AI.

Have a great day, talk soon!