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Roger Martin

CEO Blog

Roger Martin, Dean of Rotman School of Business spoke at World Innovation Forum (#WIF11). I know Roger and have read most of his books. Entrepreneurs are delusional but our societies need these dreamers who think they are the one in ten". I even have one on my desk waiting to be read now. He sat on the RIM board with me.

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Leaders: Where Are Your Best Ideas Born? The Power Of Incubation

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Roger L. Recently, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of entrepreneurs for one of my clients. One entrepreneur goes to his cottage on the lake, another goes to his property in the desert, another works on a friend’s cattle ranch outside of the city. At work, most of us are in implementation mode. Action mode.

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0706 | How Transformation Works with Roger Martin & Sally Osberg

LDRLB

Strategy guru Roger L. In this interview, they describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

50 Signs You Are Married to an Entrepreneur. HBR: The Big Lie of Strategic Planning by Roger Martin. How to Maximize Your Energy When You Don''t Have a Lot by @JesseLynStoner. The Best of Marshall Goldsmith 2014 by @coachgoldsmith. FT: Thirteen traits of true innovation. Testing Your Leadership Vision by @MarkSanborn.

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Karl Ronn: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). An entrepreneur should be able to summarize an idea in one short sentence.

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Want A Better Strategy? Don’t Talk To The Same People.

Strategy Driven

Al is one of the most creative entrepreneurs I know. Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. I am pretty sure that we both had tears in our eyes when we walked the property and found ourselves shoulder-high in a sea of broken trees. Al loves my party. Talk to them.