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.
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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Roger is available for keynote and other speaking engagements. Advisory services and team workshops can also be booked with Roger.
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What is Digital Strategy, Anyway?
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Strategists: Stop Obsessing about Averages
May 3, 2021
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Manipulation of Quantities & Appreciation of Qualities
April 26, 2021
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It’s Time to Accept that Marketing and Strategy are One Discipline
April 19, 2021
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It’s Time to Toss SWOT Analysis into the Ashbin of Strategy History
April 12, 2021
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Can You Be Both Cost Leader & Differentiator?
April 5, 2021
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The Shift from Pre-Competitive to Competitive
March 29, 2021
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Where’s the Business Model in Playing to Win?
March 22, 2021
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Reliability versus Validity in Strategy
March 15, 2021
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The Role of Strategy in Achieving Managerial Effectiveness
March 8, 2021
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The Tragic Futility of Investing to Catch Up
March 1, 2021
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February 22, 2021
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Strategy vs. Planning: Complements, not Substitutes
February 15, 2021
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The Two Rules that Monopolists Ignore at their Peril
February 8, 2021
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Distinguishing How-to-Win from Capabilities in Your Strategy Choice
February 1, 2021
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Playing to Win and Scenario Planning
January 25, 2021
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My Business is Too Fast-Moving for Strategy
January 18, 2021
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Is Strategy in B2B Dramatically Different than in B2C?
January 11, 2021
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The Trap of Presiding Over Strategy
January 4, 2021
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On the Inseparability of Where-to-Play and How-to-Win
December 28, 2020
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Strategy & Integrative Thinking
December 21, 2020
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Playing to Win for Social Sector Organizations
December 7, 2020
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From Laudable List to How to Really Win
November 16, 2020
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Strategy is What You DO, not What You SAY
October 26, 2020
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Why I am Skeptical of Low Market Shares
October 19, 2020
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Is the Opposite of Your Choice Stupid on its Face?
October 12, 2020
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The Role of Management Systems in Strategy
October 8, 2020
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September 28, 2020
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September 14, 2020
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Should We ‘Follow the Science/Scientists?’
September 8, 2020
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Covid, Hedge Funds & Lamprey Eels
August 31, 2020
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For Want of a Tool the Business Roundtable may Lose the Kingdom
August 24, 2020
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Overcoming the Pitfalls of Our Same-Different Impulse
August 17, 2020
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COVID-19 Across American: It’s the Geography, Stupid!
August 10, 2020
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Lying to Pollsters: The Weapon du Jour
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