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.
Reviews
Forbes
A.G. Lafley's Recent Book Is A Leader's Guide To Building An Everyday Strategic Practice
March 21, 2014
Forbes
September 17, 2013
Mannaz
Create a Winning Strategy Through the Right Choices
July 9, 2013
Soundview Executive Book Summaries
Build To Think
May 29, 2013
Fin24
May 26, 2013
robfields.com
Why “Playing To Win: How Strategy Really Works” Is A Must-Read
May 25, 2013
marketing.ie
May 2013
Gartner
Playing to Win by AG Lafley — a book review
April 15, 2013
Business World
March, 10, 2013
800CeoRead
Thinker in Residence: Bruce Nussbaum on Business & Books
March 7, 2013
Do It Invest
“Playing to Win” by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin – a Book Review
March 5, 2013
Mariposa Leadership
March 4, 2013
Gartner
Book Review – A.G.Lafley’s “Playing to Win – How Strategy Really Works”
March 4, 2013
Small Business Trends
“Playing to Win” Explains the 5 Strategy Mistakes Businesses Make
March 3, 2013
Associations Now
March 1, 2013
The Irish Times
Pointing Business in the Right Direction
February 25, 2013
Business Standard
February 24, 2013
Forbes
The 10 Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
February 12, 2013
Openforum.com
Playing to Win: P&G CEO on the Key to a Powerful Business Strategy
February 5, 2013
The Globe and Mail
Five Savvy Questions for Strategic Success
February 5, 2013
Financial Times
January 23, 2013
Business Traveller
Business book review: Playing To Win
January 23, 2013
MediaPost
The Marketer's Bookshelf: P&G's Secrets; Fast-Growing Brands; The Curse of Incumbents
January 22, 2013
The Economist
January 12, 2013
Publishers Weekly
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
March 12, 2012
Live Mint
February 17, 2012
Dec 16, 2024
Addendum to Educating Extremists
Dec 16, 2024
Leaders Shouldn’t Try to Do It All
Dec 16, 2024
