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.
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The Key Point
When More is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
February 1, 2022
Government Technology
Tackling Policy Lag in Unprecedented, Challenging Times
December 8, 2020
The Charity Report
When More is Not Better by Roger Martin: ‘Has the familiarity of my grandma’s wisdom’
December 7, 2020
New:Economy Newsletter
December 4, 2020
Corporate Board Member
Can We Save Capitalism From Itself?
November 12, 2020
Chief Executive
How CEOs Can Save Capitalism From Itself
November 8, 2020
SirReadaLot
When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
November 2020
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
October 24, 2020
Porchlight Books
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
October 9, 2020
Globe & Mail
Is your organization a machine or a rain forest?
October 3, 2020
Midwest Book Review
October 2020
Medium
Design Principles for a More Resilient Economy
September 29, 2020
Psychology Today
How Efficiency and Resilience Can Coexist
September 29, 2020
Financial Times
In Times of Crisis, We Need to be More Resilient
September 28, 2020
Financial Times
FT Business Books: September Edition
September 7, 2020
AACSB BizEd
August 28, 2020
Forbes.com
Overcoming America’s Obsession With Economic Efficiency
August 19, 2020
Medium
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part Two
August 11, 2020
Medium
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part One
August 4, 2020
IEDP
August 4, 2020
Publisher’s Weekly
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency
July 15, 2020
Medium
July 3, 2020
Forbes.com
Roger L. Martin On The Pandemic And The Dark Side Of Economic Efficiency
June 22, 2020
Amazon.ca
A Strategic Framework for Growth
Jul 22, 2024
Jul 15, 2024
The Five Deadliest Strategy Myths
Jul 8, 2024
