Roger Martin: “Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system”
http://www.gagglescape.com/index.php/site/comments/528/ :
According to [Roger] Martin, [Dean of the Rotman School of Management] - and he pulled no punches - Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system. “Taxing businesses at high rates is just counterproductive,” says Martin.
The article also covers key steps Ontario’s policy makers can take to improve competitiveness, and that leaders in Ontario take “too much time off”.
[…] other indicators suggest that given a globally competitive taxation system as well as some fine-tuning of our regulatory infrastructure, we can compete with the best the world can offer.
Personally, I’d like to see more use of Social Media, such as blogs and wikis, and more in the way of distributed leadership. These tools help staff brainstorm together more effectively, self-organize around niches, and better track go-to-market effects. Creating feedback to seed an innovative ecology will shift the culture (see ‘Its Cultural’ ) faster than soley finance and regulatory influencers in isolation would.