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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Marie-Louise Skafte is an award-winning global leader, entrepreneur, and internationally licensed commercial-minded lawyer. She is COO and General Counsel of Roger L. Martin, Inc. and the Founder and President of Skafte Global Law, PA. Ms. Skafte has 25+ years of providing multi-jurisdictional legal counsel and expertise in international commercial matters, strategy, operations, negotiations, leasing, human resources, corporate and regulatory compliance, and C-Suite relationship management across the transportation, logistics, aviation, distribution, freight-forwarding, and financial and professional services industries. In addition to working in CHRO, COO, CCO, and General Counsel roles, she serves on multiple boards and committees for notable business, academic, and charitable organizations. Skafte earned her JD from Suffolk University Law School and also holds a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her husband, Roger. An avid world traveler, she is also a licensed Commercial-Rated Jet Pilot.
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Marie-Louise Skafte is an award-winning global leader, entrepreneur, and internationally licensed commercial-minded lawyer with over 25 years of success providing expertise in international commercial matters, strategy, operations, negotiations, leasing, human resources, corporate and regulatory compliance, and C-Suite relationship management across the transportation, logistics, aviation, distribution, freight-forwarding, and financial and professional services industries. In addition to working in CHRO, COO, CCO, and General Counsel roles, she serves on multiple boards and committees for notable business, academic, and charitable global organizations. She has been a featured contributor on books and podcasts, including the award-winning podcast Worklife with Adam Grant, and a speaker, presenter, and moderator for numerous keynotes and roundtable discussions.
Licensed to practice in Canada, England, and the US, Ms. Skafte COO and General Counsel for Roger L. Martin, Inc., where she also serves as a thought partner and content contributor to her business partner and husband, strategy and management guru Roger L. Martin. She is also the Founder and President of Skafte Global Law, P.A., a boutique fractional general counsel and legal consulting firm she founded in 2015. Skafte earned her JD from Suffolk University Law School and also holds a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is an avid world traveler and licensed Commercial-Rated Jet Pilot.
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Marie-Louise Skafte is an award-winning global leader, entrepreneur, and internationally licensed commercial-minded lawyer with over 25 years of success providing expertise in international commercial matters, strategy, operations, negotiations, leasing, human resources, corporate and regulatory compliance, and C-Suite relationship management across the transportation, logistics, aviation, distribution, freight-forwarding, engineering, construction, financial, and professional services industries.
Licensed to practice in Canada, England, and the US, Ms. Skafte is the COO and General Counsel for Roger L. Martin, Inc., where she has a decade of strategy development and deployment experience working as a thought partner and content contributor alongside her business partner and husband, strategy and management guru Roger L. Martin. She is also the President of Skafte Global Law, P.A, a boutique fractional general counsel and legal consulting firm she founded in 2015.
These ventures follow her distinguished tenure as Global General Counsel, CHRO, and head of Corporate Compliance at Bermuda-based Cronos Ltd., a private equity-owned global marine container leasing company operating in 19 countries, where she was instrumental in its successful sale and post-integration efforts. Ms. Skafte also served as General Counsel of international shipping giant, Deutsche Post DHL Canada, serving 220 countries, where she established and led the first legal department for its Canadian operations.
Ms. Skafte's governance acumen is highlighted by multiple board and committee roles for notable business, academic, and charitable global organizations, including an elected board officer role of Corporate Secretary for Suffolk University where she serves as a Charter Trustee. She also serves on the board of Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC) and has served as board member and global ambassador for One Love Foundation, personally conducting workshops and bringing awareness to South Africa, Bermuda and Europe.
Recognized for legal excellence, she has been awarded titles such as Global General Counsel of the Year by legal powerhouse K & L Gates for CCWC in 2015, Transportation & Logistics Lawyer of the Year in 2016, Top Rated Lawyers in Florida in 2022, and Lawyers of Distinction from 2022 to 2024. Skafte earned her JD from Suffolk University Law School and also holds a BA in Labor/Management Relations & Business from the University of Toronto and Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned academic and athletic scholarships. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is an avid world traveler and licensed Commercial-Rated Jet Pilot.
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