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Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 26, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship. A business leader who can provide an effective bridge between strategy theory and on-the-ground practice,…

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Wicked Strategies: A book review by Bob Morris

August 25, 2016

Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors John C. Camillus University of Toronto Press (July 2016) How to embrace change and transformation, yet maintain an enduring and proud identity To what does this book’s title refer? According to…

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Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 14, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship. A business leader who can provide an effective bridge between strategy theory and on-the-ground practice,…

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Achieving Longevity: A book review by Bob Morris

June 27, 2016

Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking Jim Dewald University of Toronto Press (June 2016) Improvement that is not continuous is merely a gesture of no enduring value Years ago at a GE annual meeting, its then chairman…

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Stragility: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2016

Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes Ellen Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand University of Toronto Press (March 2016) How to thrive in a global marketplace that seems to become more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous each day Ellen Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand…

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Tim Brown on “The Need for More Darwin and Less Newton in Our Approach to Design”

December 18, 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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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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Rotman on Design: A book review by Bob Morris

October 15, 2013

Rotman on Design: The Best on Design Thinking from Rotman Magazine Roger Martin and Karen Christensen, Co-Editors University of Toronto Press (2013) The best on design thinking from Rotman Magazine: An abundance of valuable insights Brilliantly co-edited by Roger Martin…

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2013

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) Here’s a blueprint “for deploying design thinking across levels and functions in order to embed a more creative…

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Charles Owen on the characteristics of design thinking

October 7, 2013

Creativity is of major importance to design thinking, just as it is to science thinking and thinking in any other field. But as is true for each field, characteristics other than creativity are also important. Charles Owen has identified several…

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