Cartt.ca Podcast

PHIL LIND MAY ALWAYS BE remembered as Ted Rogers’ cajoling consigliere. Sure, Phil had more appearances before the CRTC – over 100 – than anybody; and he’s put in 40 exciting years co-building the Rogers brand and our country’s second-largest telecommunications and media company – Rogers Communications. But to caricature Phil Lind as merely Ted’s strategic “Abominable No Man” is to sell this man very short. His new book Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Guided the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur, written with Bob Brehl, may not be headed for the RBC Taylor Prize, but I couldn’t put it down (Cartt.ca published excerpts here and here). From sports to politics, to the arts, to environmental awareness, to Canada-U.S. relations, to the stroke that left the right side of his body paralyzed — he’s got quite a story to tell. It’s also at times pretty candid about Ted’s character, which clearly included business genius – but also bullying, encouraging back-biting, and sometimes resenting this righ