Cirque du Soleil CEO Daniel Lamarre
Talking Management

Creativity no laughing matter at Cirque du Soleil

CEO Daniel Lamarre says consensus has its drawbacks. If you want to foster ingenuity, he says, the best ideas must prevail – and they come through debate

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Dimitry Buterin and Jim Sympathy listen as Jay Moonah leads a Friday afternoon brainstorming meeting, complete with beers at the Bonasource office in Toronto on Friday February 19, 2010. JENNIFER ROBERTS FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Weekend Workout

Workplace creativity shrivels on the vine

More work, longer hours, lower pay, fewer resources. Employees have endured a lot over the past 18 months. Now add stifled imaginations to the list

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada pose with their gold medals after they won the Ice Dance competition on day 11 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics at Pacific Coliseum on February 22, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada won gold, Meryl Davies and Charlie White of USA won silver and Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won bronze.
Monday Manager

Five management lessons from Olympic athletes

Harvey Schachter's guide on how to handle everything from overflowing e-mail to meeting overload

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The great workplace discipline dilemma

Progressive discipline: It may not be warm and fuzzy, but it should be timely, transparent and fair

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Mr. Manufacturing in the oil patch

'We know how much better we have to be than ... our foreign competitors, and we do everything we can to maintain that'

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Manulife paves a new path in Asia

The insurer's agents are trekking deep into rural Asia in a bid to draw clients with ‘really micro' insurance programs

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Striving to create an undisputed market leader

Court Carruthers, senior vice-president for W. W. Grainger Inc., has been driving culture change at the 121-year-old distributor of industrial supplies

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Sears Canada turns to Web for ‘endless aisle'

Catalogue giant is betting heavily on the Internet to shore up flagging sales at its bricks-and-mortar department stores

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Heeding the drumbeat of emerging markets

Management consultant urges companies to regard their growth with a global mindset