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The Genius of Richard Florida: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 27, 2022

Richard Florida is author of the global best-sellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? A more recent book,The Great Reset, explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Other works include The Flight of the Creative…

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Jennifer Riel and Roger Martin on integrative thinking: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

December 3, 2017

Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time.…

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Applying design thinking across the business: An interview with Citrix’s Catherine Courage

March 6, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Catherine Courage by Hugo Sarrazin and Hyo Yeon for the McKinsey Quarterly (February 2015), published by McKinsey & Company. Catherine Courage champions user-centered design—not only for the benefit of the software…

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Roger Martin on “Five Initiatives Needed in a Designer-Unfriendly Environment”

December 13, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…

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Richard Florida, Second Interview, by Bob Morris

August 8, 2012

Richard Florida is author of the global best-sellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? A more recent book,The Great Reset, explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Other works include The Flight of the Creative…

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Roger Martin: Interview #2 by Bob Morris

September 16, 2010

Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to a seven-year term beginning in September 1998 and re-appointed to a further five-year term effective July 2005. He is also a…

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