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Dee Turner commented on Roger Martin's blog post 'How Exceptional Leaders Think'

I couldn't agree with you more Linda! And during that Federal Debate where the Green Party Leader was FINALLY included, I was thinking ~ even if the Green Party doesn't get elected, I would sure like to have Elizabeth May sitting in Parliament to ke…

May 29, 2009

Tom Jarmyn commented on Roger Martin's blog post 'How business unwittingly stifles new ideas'

Possible the problem is that we get what we demand from the boardrooms. How many people prior to the tech bubble or the most recent difficulties were prepared to accept an investment that yielded 8 or 9 percent annually? Many (large and small invest…

May 5, 2009

Justin Kingsley commented on Roger Martin's blog post 'How business unwittingly stifles new ideas'

The real issue is creativity and its absence from board rooms. Decision-makers in big corporations are too focused on numbers and not enough on letters. The metaphor is that numbers deal only with money, whereas letters focus exclusively on creativi…

May 5, 2009

Linda Fraser commented on Roger Martin's blog post 'How Exceptional Leaders Think'

When the press was trying to get the candidates of the last federal election to work together to talk about issues, the process they initiated invited integrative thinking. The desire to work on Canada's problems together by using integrated problem…

April 27, 2009

Tony Mcintyre commented on Roger Martin's blog post 'How business unwittingly stifles new ideas'

CHANGE AND BUSINESS ARE OFTEN OXIMORANS.STATUS QUO IS WERE THIER MONEY IS INVESTED/VESTED SELF INTEREST ./EXAMPLE ;IMAGINE That at the turn to the 20th century Tesla had not bin burned out and driven into obscurity ,Tesla wireless electricity would…

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How Exceptional Leaders Think

How Exceptional Leaders Think Roger discusses ideas from his book The Opposable Mind, the basics of integrative thinking and examples of business leaders who are using the techniques to advantage.

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How exceptional leaders think

How exceptional leaders think Roger discusses ideas from his book The Opposable Mind, the basics of integrative thinking and examples of business leaders who are using the techniques to advantage.

April 6, 2009

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• Roger Martin has served as dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998. He holds the Premier's Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship. Previously he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.
• His research work is in Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. He writes extensively on design and is a regular columnist for BusinessWeek Online's Innovation and Design Channel. He has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published three books: The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets -- And the Rest of Us -- Can Harness The Power of True Partnership (Basic Books, 2002), and The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, with Mihnea Moldoveanu (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• In 2007 he was named a BusinessWeek 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. BusinessWeek also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005, and in 2004, he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award.
• He serves on the Boards of Thomson Reuters, Research in Motion, The Skoll Foundation, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, Social Capital Partners and Tennis Canada. He is a trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children and chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.
• A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.

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How Exceptional Leaders Think

How Exceptional Leaders Think

Roger discusses ideas from his book The Opposable Mind, the basics of integrative
thinking and examples of business leaders who are using the techniques to advantage.

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Posted on April 6, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

How business unwittingly stifles new ideas

Why do so many new products suck?

Roger Martin discusses the conflict between the goals of validity and reliability and offers his perspective on finding the optimum balance.

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Posted on March 15, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

Economic Crisis – the right time to invest in future prosperity

Speaking as Chairman of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress, Roger discusses the need for Ontarians to maintain a bal

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Posted on March 15, 2009 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments