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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Meet Roger
Let's Read
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
Let's Engage
Thought Pillars
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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Reviews
Developing Leaders Quarterly
Issue 22, 2016
Forbes.com
Let's Stop Calling Everything 'Social Entrepreneurship'
December 17, 2015
thehindubusinessline.com
Business and the art of giving
December 6, 2015
Faith & Leadership
Toggling between abhorrence and appreciation
December 1, 2015
The Telegraph
Meet the quirky Third World entrepreneurs who do more good than the do-gooders
November 26, 2015
Management Today
Why your company can be both responsible and successful
November 25, 2015
Nonprofit Chronicles
The Skoll Foundation: "Betting on Good People"
November 22, 2015
Forbes.com
Four Steps Toward A Greater Understanding Of Social Enterprise
November 18, 2015
The Irish Times
Business owners trying to make a difference to society
November 16, 2015
Bookverdict.com
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
November 15, 2015
The Toronto Star
Greed is not the only driver of economic growth: Goar
November 02, 2015
@lliance Magazine
Getting Beyond Better – How social entrepreneurship works - Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg
December 1, 2015
Porchlight Books
Jack Covert Selects: Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
October 29, 2015
HartfordBusiness.com
Tips for maintaining long-term business success
October 26, 2015
Las Vegas Business Review
Books offer tips on getting beyond better
October 18, 2015
Forbes.com
How Social Entrepreneurs Change The World
October 13, 2015
Financial Post
What it really means to be a social entrepreneur
September 25, 2015
Rotman
The Virtue Matrix Reloaded: What Can it Tell Us About Corporate Social Responsibility Now?
Fall 2009