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Shiftdisturbers highlights the people, research and ideas that change the way we think about the world. It is the official podcast of the Martin Prosperity Institue, an academic think tank that aims to deepen our understanding of economic prosperity. Housed at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the Institute's mission is to develop new understandings and inform the broader public conversation around shared and sustainable prosperity, an essential piece of democratic cap ...
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Episode #22 - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
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The Martin Prosperity Institute will be closing its doors at the end of June. Over a decade ago we set out to make a difference in the world in our explorations of city building and geographic advantage and in our investigation into the underpinnings and fault lines of democratic capitalism. For details on the latter, we highly recommend taking a l…
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Episode #21 Solutions for Democratic Capitalism
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Over the course of the last decade, MPI researchers have looked at the problems faced by democratic capitalism from a number of different angles. In our last episode, MPI Institute Director Roger Martin talked about some of the solutions he’s explored for the problems facing our democratic, capitalist system. He specifically had call-to-actions for…
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As part of MPI's ongoing work around shared prosperity, Roger Martin outlines his case against efficiency, specifically the way it's come to dominate how we think about the economy and politics and how that impacts are day to day lives. Once considered an unalloyed good, he argues we've gone to far, pushing our systems of finance and government to …
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We examine the idea of citizenship and the power that comes with it.Here in North America, and across the Western world, we don’t put stringent definitions or limitations on what constitutes citizenship. Some simply define citizenship as voting while others would argue that even that is too limiting. Everyone we spoke with for this podcast, agreed …
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we kick-off 2018 by looking at the term Music City, its meaning, intent and how such recognitions shape cultural policy in cities.Featuring interviews with Toronto Music Sector Development Officer Mike Tanner and Sound Diplomacy founder Shain Shapiro.Featured music: Wake - "Steppin'"Poddington Bear - "Woop Groove" & "The Window"…
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16 blog posts, 14 research reports, 13 op-eds, four books and 1 short film – it’s been quite a year for us here at MPI. On this episode we take stock and looking back at some of that research while casting our gaze forward to 2018.The Shiftdisturbers Holiday Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/iangormely/playlist/3jkDo1co6ZsOi7kowoVRAzMusic in …
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We take a look at integrative thinking, a problem-solving theory that MPI Institute director Roger Martin conceived about a dozen years ago. He’s written two books on the subject, 2007’s The Opposable Mind, and the just-released Creating Great Choices, co-authored by Jennifer Riel. Put simply, integrative thinking is a technique through which two o…
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A look into the themes explored in the new documentary short film ProsperUS. Produced by the Nantucket Project, an annual gathering of leading thinkers and decision makers with an aim making quote meaningful change, ProsperUS puts the spotlight on the decline of the American Dream and the dangers that imbalance poses to the capitalist democratic sy…
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This episode celebrates MPI's 10th anniversary and features a sit-down conversation with Institute director Roger Martin and Director of Cities Richard Florida. In the mid-2000s, Joseph Rotman came to then dean Roger Martin, offering Roger the financial support needed to build his own think tank. Excited by the opportunity, Roger immediately called…
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Featuring interviews with IDEO CEO Tim Brown, Claudia Kotchka and Roger Martin, we take a closer look at design thinking. While you might not know what that term means, you’ve no doubt encountered many of the products the methodology has helped shape. It's a way for companies to figure out what consumers want and how best to give that to them. Appl…
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In honour of Canada Day, on today’s episode, we’re taking a break from our usual dives into MPI research and have a little nationalistic fun. We canvased the staff here at MPI and our sister think tank, the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity asking people to share their most Canadian moment with the pod. And while no one was willing to ad…
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On today’s episode, we’re talking childcare. This seemingly innocuous piece of public-private policy can have a huge impact on kids, parents and even the economy. Childcare is finally being viewed through an economic, rather than a social lens as governments realize that childcare is about creating jobs, getting people back to work and preparing fu…
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A look at the different processes that thinkers Roger Martin, Richard Florida, and Jennifer Riel as well as journalists David Frum and Adam Radwanski use to come up with, articulate, and disseminate their thoughts and ideas. These are unique ways of approaching thinking and research specific to the individual, but we hope that if givesome insight i…
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Episode #9: What Trump Got Right & What The Dems Got Wrong
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Ever since he burst back onto the political scene back in 2015, politicians, pundits and the general populace has been trying to figure out what makes Donald Trump tick. While many claim to understand the motivations of the president, few believed he’d actually win. Not so with Roger Martin. The former Dean of Rotman and our own Institute Director …
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We’re taking stock and looking back at some of the research we’ve done over the past year. On the whole, we think that we’re on the right track.But, the base assumptions through which we filter much of our work has been altered by both the Brexit vote and the recent US election. How will this affect our work in the upcoming new year?Music by Wake (…
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What do you do when your country goes on without you? On today’s episode, we take a look at the concept of social mobility, or moving up the socio-economic ladder. Politicians, particularly in the most recent election cycle, like to talk about the American dream – the idea that if you keep your head down and work hard, you can be lifted out of pove…
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Episode #2.5 (Mini-Episode): Where do the World's Billionaires Live?
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In this mini-episode, MPI's very own Director of Cities Richard Florida talks about the cities’ team’s new report, the Geography of the Global Super-Rich which tracks the geography of the world’s billionaires. Richard tells us what he and his team discovered including where the world’s wealthiest people live, why they live there and how they can af…
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We had the chance to speak with New York Times best-selling author Chuck Klosterman when he stopped by Rotman as part of our Shiftdisturbers speaker series. Klosterman is known for his keen sports and pop culture observations as well as his stint as the Ethicist for New York Times Magazine. He’s a super smart guy who brings his a unique worldview t…
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Speaking with MIT Sloan School of Management prof Zeynep Ton, author of the Good Jobs Strategy, and the United Way's Michelynn LaFleche, we take a look at the changing nature of work. Specifically, we put on the spotlight on workplace instability and how bad jobs and precarious work are sending ripple effects across the economy. The Good Jobs Strat…
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Episode #3.5 (Mini-Episode): Your Worst Job Ever
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For this mini-episode we polled the MPI office about our own worst work experiences. We talk a lot about the shift from an industrial economy to a creativity and knowledge driven economy. Yet, what gets obscured is that that this shift hasn’t benefitted everyone; while those who have moved into creative fields enjoy both higher compensation and job…
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Episode #3: Toronto as the Next Silicon Valley
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A recent article on TechCrunch suggested that Toronto is set to become the next Silicon Valley. For Episode 3 of ShiftDisturbers we asked Toronto based entrepreneur Michael Katchen, founder of FinTech company WealthSimple, local angel investor Dan DeBow, and Richard Florida, who wrote series of Startup City reports examining the geography of ventur…
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Episode #2: Rethinking the Think Tank with Roger Martin and Politico's Susan Glasser
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On the second episode of Shiftdisturbers we’re talking about how to rethink the think tank. There is a growing consensus that the traditional work of think tanks – identifying and studying a topic before making policy recommendations to government - is no longer effective in its current form. If that if the model is to continue, we’re going to need…
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Richard Florida talks Venture Capital Investment
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Richard Florida talks about venture capital investment in the United States and across the globe as part of the Martin Prosperity Institute's ongoing Startup City series of reports.By Shiftdisturbers
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Episode #1: Adam Grant and Non-Comformity
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In the inaugural episode of shiftdisturbers: the MPI podcast, our host Ian Gormely talks to MPI Fellow, Adam Grant, MPI Director of the Cities team, Richard Florida, and radio host on Vibe 105.5, Alex Centorame. We discuss what makes an Original, and how non-conformity can help stoke creativity, and what this means for the workplace. Intro and Outr…
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Episode #8: Urbanization In South East Asia
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We chat with MPI director of cities, Richard Florida, about his team’s most recent report, The Rise of the Urban Creative Class in Southeast Asia, which looks at the massive wave of urbanization currently sweeping Southeast Asia and the ripple effects that transformation could have on the region’s middle and creative classes. Analyzing urbanization…
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