Who Should Be On the Canadian Top Right in Business List?

I’m loving Slate’s Top Right idea, the use of a quadrant graph to represent how people (or institutions) balance innovation and pragmatism.

In their case, the X-axis on the graph represents innovation while the Y-axis is pragmatism. When you apply this quadrant to people, in their words,

“The center point is where most of us live–competent, occasionally imaginative. The bottom left quadrant–dull and incompetent–is a hell of surly DMV clerks… The upper-left quadrant, practical but dull, is where you’ll find capable managers, derivative thinkers, and shopping-mall developers. The bottom-right quadrant, innovative but impractical, is an elevated Blimp City financed through a flat tax and powered by solar panels.”

“And then there’s the Top Right. It is here you find the world-changers, the people who combine inventiveness and pragmatism to solve problems that other people couldn’t solve, or wouldn’t solve, or hadn’t even recognized.”

Slate used this quadrant idea to put together a list of the 25 Americans who combine inventive genius and practicality, including this list of the Top Right in Business.

Which got me thinking… If you were doing a Canadian version of this list who would be on it?

Well let’s find out. Send me the names of the people you’d like to see on the Top Right of Canadian Business list and why (just click comment below) and I’ll sort through them to create our own Canadian list.

My nominee? George Klein. He developed electric wheelchairs, the microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm – amazingly innovative and practical in my opinion.

Who’s yours? You can nominate more than one person if you like.

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