What Would Have to Be True?

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Yemost strategy is about analyzing, doing analysis right to come up with your strategy. Most people who go into strategy are analytically inclined. The problem is, by analyzing what is, you're never going to find out might be. So that's why what would have to be true is way more powerful than what is true. That's the power of saying, not what is true, but what would has to be true and can we make it true?

Roger Martin reveals how to identify the unconscious mental models holding you back from more superior management effectiveness.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why people will resist correcting outdated models

2) Powerful questions to dismantle outdated models

3) The simple word shift that makes you more strategic

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— ABOUT ROGER —

Professor Roger Martin is a writer, strategy advisor and in 2017 was named the #1 management thinker in the world. He is also former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.

• Book: A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

• Twitter: @RogerLMartin

• Website: RogerLMartin.com

• Medium: Playing to Win Practitioner

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Art as Experience by John Dewey

• Book: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Book: Social Limits to Growth by Fred Hirsch

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