GORDON PITTS
TOPICS:
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Stampede: The rise of the Canadian West and the new power elite
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Hot management ideas and trends of the 2000s
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The future of the family business
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In the Blood: Lessons from the business dynasties
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Media convergence: fact and fiction
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Can Canadians be entrepreneurs?
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Succession planning in Canadian companies
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Business and Media Education
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Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management
Gordon Pitts is an author and business
journalist, with a specialization in issues of management, strategy,
leadership, family business, entrepreneurship and the future of Canadian
business and its competitiveness in a turbulent global economy.
He is the 2009 winner of Canada’s National
Business Book Award for his fifth book, Stampede: The Rise of the
West and Canada’s New Power Elite. Stampede, published by Key
Porter, is the fifth book he has written on Canadian business, and
followed his national best-seller, “The Codfathers, Lessons from the
Atlantic Business Elite,” published in fall, 2005. He has also
written, ‘Kings of Convergence: The Fight for Control of Canada's
Media’ (Doubleday, 2002), and ‘In the Blood: Battles to Succeed
in Canada's Family Businesses’, another national bestseller
published by
Doubleday in 2000. His first book, ‘Storming
the Fortress: How Canadian Companies Can Conquer Europe in 1992’
(HarperCollins), was published in 1990. All five books have been
finalists for the National Business Book Award.
A veteran of 34 years as a business journalist,
he is currently a senior writer on strategy, entrepreneurship and
leadership in the Report on Business section of Canada's major national
newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He provides the At the Top interview
feature in the Monday Report on Business and the Exit Interview in the
monthly Report on Business Magazine. He is also a former editor and
writer in the Report on Business’s feature pages that have focused on
marketing, strategic management and the professions.
He has helped spearhead the Globe’s recent
coverage of major economic issues, such as the threats to Canadian
manufacturing, the debate over the hollowing-out of Canadian head
offices through foreign takeovers, and the role of a rising China in the
new global power structure..
In fall, 2006, he was invited to be a
distinguished writer in residence at the University of Alberta Business
School and the Alberta Business Family Institute. In June 2003, he
delivered the opening keynote address at the Canadian television
industry's high-profile Banff conference. The speech was titled:
‘Convergence, Consolidation and Crisis’.
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