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.
Videos & Podcasts
Harvard Business Review
June 29, 2022
Big Think
‘The Art of War’: The greatest strategy book ever written | Roger Martin
January 20, 2023
The Knowledge Project
Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
November 24, 2020
The Nantucket Project
November 24, 2017
The Battle for the Soul of 21st Century Innovation
September 2016
Rotman School of Management
Breaking Barriers to Creativity: Tim Brown + Roger Martin at Life-Long Learning '17
May 30, 2017
Princeton Keller Center
The Battle for the Soul of Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
March 29, 2017
Thinkbig.com
Innovation Is Too Essential for Businesses to Be Precious About
September 16, 2016
World Design Organization
October 18, 2015
Bloomberg Business
How Design & Business Come Together
April 28, 2015
Design Indaba
Roger Martin on leveraging design in business
May 14, 2013
ReadItFor.me
The Design of Business Trailer
May 13, 2010
Sydney Opera House
March 18, 2010
Human-Centered Change and Innovation
Innovation a Prisoner of Inductive and Deductive Logic
February 2, 2010
Roger Martin in Conversation with Bruce Nussbaum at Parsons The New School for Design
November 12, 2009
The Engaging Brand Blog
November 9, 2009
Roger Martin on the Design of Business at Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference, Memphis, TN
October 9, 2009
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
By Design: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
June 10, 2009
Business as an Agent of World Benefit
June 4, 2009
Institute of Design Strategy Conference, Roger Martin interviews P&G’s A.G. Lafley
May 23, 2008
Illinois Institute of Technology Strategy Conference
May 17, 2007
Dec 16, 2024
Addendum to Educating Extremists
Dec 16, 2024
Leaders Shouldn’t Try to Do It All
Dec 16, 2024
