John Roth

Canadian businessman

John Andrew Roth, a Canadian, was the chief executive officer and chairman of Nortel Networks between 1997-2001,[1] He was called "the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history" by Time magazine and named Canada’s CEO of the Year by a Bay Street panel in the fall of 2000.[2] He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in 1942.

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  • We desperately need to create a culture of winners
  • Policies and business strategies that worked well in the industrial era are a recipe for stagnation and decline in the new economy

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  1. Speakers Forum JOHN ROTH. www.speakersforum.com. Retrieved on 11 September 2018.
  2. Maich, Steve (23 January 2009), The four faces of Nortel's descent: Roth, Dunn, Owens and Zafirovski: greed, mendacity, incompetence and finally desperation, retrieved on October 7, 2016