Critical to the success of every organization, strategy is not a long planning exercise or document. Strategy can be simple, fun and effective and is founded on a set of five interrelated and powerful choices that positions an organization to win.
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Integrative thinking is a form of reasoning which allows you to constructively face the tensions of opposing models. Instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, you generate a creative solution. Your solution contains elements of the individual models, but is superior to each.
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Organizations need to incorporate the best of design thinking into their ways of working to unleash innovation and creativity. An organization will be able to counter-balance analytical thinking with intuitive thinking – to enable it to both exploit existing knowledge and create new knowledge.
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While prevailing theory holds that stock-based compensation perfectly aligns corporate executives’ incentives with those of shareholders, it does the opposite. As a consequence, executives have done brilliantly while shareholders have become increasingly frustrated. Incentives and governance practice needs to be transformed to enable corporations to prosper in a way that better serves society.
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The combination of the stagnation of medium incomes and the rapid rise of high incomes is threatening the future of democratic capitalism. Its predictive future requires building a more robust knowledge, transactional and physical infrastructure for broadly shared prosperity.
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For both social entrepreneurs and corporations, the key tenet of social innovation is finding ways to make the world a better place. My work focuses on building tools for social entrepreneurs to create more powerful models for creating value for society and developing models to guide corporations on a path of productive corporate citizenship.
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A New Way to Think
When More is Not Better
Creating Great Choices
The Rise (and Likely Fall) of the Talent Economy
Getting Beyond Better
Playing To win
Canada: What it is, what it can be
Fixing the Game
The Design Of Business
The Opposable Mind
The Responsibility Virus
Dia-Minds
The Future of the MBA
Rotman on Design
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In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego, Ford, BHP & Verizon
Roger Martin is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019 and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
His newest book is A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). His previous twelve books include When More is Not Better (HBRP, 2020), Creating Great Choiceswritten with Jennifer Riel (HBRP, 2017) Getting Beyond Betterwritten with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 30 Harvard Business Review articles.
Roger received his BA from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. He lives in South Florida with his wife, Marie-Louise Skafte.
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Roger is available for keynote and other speaking engagements. Advisory services and team workshops can also be booked with Roger.
Articles
Harvard Business Review
September 2015
Harvard Business Review
The Rise (and Likely Fall) of the Talent Economy
October 2014
HBR.org
Activist Hedge Funds Aren't Good for Companies or Investors, So Why Do They Exist?
August 20, 2018
Harvard Business Review
December, 2015
HBR.org
October 13, 2015
HBR.org
Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem
October 9, 2015
HBR.org
What Economists Get Wrong About Measuring Productivity
September 14, 2015
HRB.org
How Talent Pulls One Over on the Capitalists
August 4, 2015
Inclusive Capitalism, Thoughts from the 2015 Conference on Inclusive Capitalism
Action to Achieve Inclusive Capitalism
June 26, 2015
Catalyst Review
A Creativity Imperative for the Future of Capitalism
Spring 2015
Rotman Magazine
In the Know: A Call for the Redesign of Our Knowledge Infrastructure
Spring 2015
HBR.org
Capitalism Needs Design Thinking
December 8, 2014
The Hindu Business Line
Creating a better mix of rewards for capital, labour and talent
October 22, 2014
HBR.org
The Dark Side of Efficient Markets
October 15, 2014
Huff Post Business
The Dark Side of Efficient Markets - re-posted in Huff Post Business
October 15, 2014
Business Day
The Rise (and likely fall) of the Talent Economy - repost in Business Day
October 8, 2014
Huff Post Business
Why Monopolistic Pension Funds Undermine Capitalism - repost Huff Post Business
October 7, 2014
HBR.org
Why Monopolistic Pension Funds Undermine Capitalism
October 6, 2014
Huff Post Business
When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth - repost in Huff Post Business
October 5, 2014
Huff Post Business
We Can't Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent - report in Huff Post Business
October 4, 2014
Huff Post Business
A Brief History of America's Attitude Toward Taxes - repost in Huff Post Business
October 3, 2014
HBR.org
When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth
September 30, 2014
HBR.org
We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent
September 23, 2014
HBR.org
A Brief History of America’s Attitude Toward Taxes
September 16, 2014
Huff Post Business
When Star Talent Grew More Powerful Than Capital - reposted in Huff Post Business
September 10, 2014
HBR.org
When Star Talent Grew More Powerful than Capital
September 9, 2014
HBR.org
The Fall of the Talent Economy?
September 4, 2014
HBR.org
In America, Labor Is Friendless
August 28, 2014
HBR.org
How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman
June 2, 2014
Rotman Magazine
User-Driven Innovation: Putting an End to Inventing in the Dark
Fall 2012
The Globe & Mail
Nexen Deal: The Only Standard is Reciprocity
July 26, 2012
The Globe & Mail
Wanted: Stronger Canadian management talent
July 11, 2012
HBR.org
The U.S. Needs to Make More Jobs More Creative
February 27, 2012
The Globe & Mail
Canada, like Steve Jobs, Should Zero in on Innovation
November 20, 2011
The Toronto Star
September 2, 2011
The Globe & Mail
The Realities of the HST, with Jim Milway
August 26, 2011
Reuters.com
July 27, 2011
The Toronto Star
Key to Productivity is Innovation, Not Invention
May 31, 2011
The Toronto Star
Think Your Home is a Safe Investment? Think Again
April 7, 2011
The Globe & Mail
Say Goodbye to the National Franchise Company
February 23, 2011
The Toronto Star
Reciprocity should be guiding principle in foreign takeovers
November 16, 2010
The Globe & Mail
How Canada can avoid France’s Retirement Woes
November 3, 2010
The Toronto Star
Maple Leaf Foods Fighting to Become a Global Player
October 7, 2010
The Globe & Mail
June 11, 2010
The Globe & Mail
November 26, 2009
Walrus Magazine
Who Killed Canada's Education Advantage
November 2009
HBR.org
Economic Forecasting: What's the Value of Outliers?
October 26, 2009
The Toronto Star
What Happened to Canada's Education Advantage
October 20, 2009
HBR.org
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics: Reading the Tea Leaves
October 13, 2009
The Globe & Mail
Time for Ottawa to Learn Business Hardball
August 3, 2009
The Toronto Star
Business Not Only Winner in Budget's Tax Changes
March 31, 2009
The Globe & Mail
We Can Ride the Crisis Out On a Wave of Our Own Inventiveness
February 7, 2009
The Toronto Star
Ontario's Prosperity Hinges on Harnessing Creativity
February 5, 2009
The Toronto Star
In Stormy Waters, Lean Into the Wind
December 30, 2008
The Globe & Mail
November 19, 2007
The Globe & Mail
Whoa, Canada: More Must Be Done to Protect Companies From Foreign Takeovers
July 2, 2007
Rotman Magazine
Underestimating the Risk of Status Quo
Spring 2007
The National Post
March 20, 2007
The Globe & Mail
February 14, 2007
Rotman Magazine
The Canadian Health Care Mystery: Where Are the Exports?
Winter 2006
The Toronto Star
The Intensity Gap: Are We Working Too Hard?
September 1, 2006
Rotman Magazine
Prosperity: A Function of Trust
Fall 2006
The Globe & Mail
Don't Ask Voodoo to Solve our Productivity Problem
January 9, 2006
The Globe & Mail
A Sure Way to Lose to India and China: Assume We Have the Advantage
December 28, 2005
The Toronto Star
December 16, 2005
The Toronto Star
Bridging Canada's Fiscal Divide
October 17, 2005
The Globe & Mail
Filling Impoverished Pockets: Good Plan, Devilish Strategy
February 25, 2005
The Globe & Mail
February 10, 2005
Innovation Policy and the Economy
Volume 5, 2005
Research Policy
Constructing Jurisdictional Advantage
Volume 34, 2005, 1235-1249
The Globe & Mail
November 15, 2004
The Globe & Mail
Corporate Slackers, Let's Roll
October 13, 2004
Financial Post
September 14, 2004
The Globe & Mail
A Bright Light on a Bad Strategy
May 18, 2004
Rotman Magazine
Partnering for Investment in Canada's Future
Spring 2004
The National Post
February 18, 2004
The Globe & Mail
August 30, 2003
The National Post
Missing Opportunities: Ontario's Urban Prosperity Gap
July 4, 2003
Rotman Magazine
Growing Communities of Human Capital
Winter 2002
The Globe & Mail
October 2, 2002
The Globe & Mail
More angels should tread in investing
July 26, 2002
The National Post
June 17, 2002
The National Post
Conquer the World and Triumph in Canada
May 13, 2002
The Globe & Mail
October 18, 2001
Rotman Magazine
Setting Our Sights on Innovation: Canada at the Crossroads
Fall 2001
The National Post
Weak Newsprint Makers a Metaphor for Canada
May 2, 2001
The Globe & Mail
April 26, 2001
The Globe & Mail
November 3, 2000
Time
October 23, 2000
The National Post
Forget This TSE Obsession and Fix the Capital Markets
September 14, 2000
Time
February 28, 2000
The Globe & Mail
February 10, 2000
The Globe & Mail
A great crew, but the ship's sinking
January 31, 2000
The Globe & Mail
A remedy for Canada's competitiveness problem
December 28, 1999
Rotman Magazine
A Prescription for Canadian Competitiveness
Spring/Summer 1999
Interviews
Innovation Hub
What Threatens the Talent Economy
December 12, 2014
CBC - Metro Morning
November 25, 2014
Huff Post Business
Want To Make A Difference? Don't Be A Hedge Fund Manager
November 24, 2014
Feb 17, 2025
Feb 10, 2025
Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights Year V Preview
Feb 3, 2025
