In your book, you talk about a seven step approach that you've taken to strategic thinking. The first one involves moving from what you call issues to choice. When you say, well, our customer base is aging, right? It's three quarters of a year older this year than it was last year. Eventually, that's going to catch up with us. We need to make a choice. Are we going to just ide our current customer base as they age, or are we going to seek to find new, younger customers?
The most successful leaders are always looking for an edge. It could be a competitive edge for their organizations, their teams, even themselves.
One of the most effective ways to gain that edge is to notice what others miss. It’s about rethinking accepted wisdom around things like, strategy, planning, and execution.
This week’s guest, Roger Martin, is someone who brought that kind of critical thinking to his own successful business and who now brings it to leaders around the world. He shares what he’s learned in his latest book, A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness.
Whether you’ve recently moved into a management position or you’ve been leading for decades, this is a practical and thoughtful resource. It’s a guide to rethinking many of our assumptions about management and leadership.
Episode Links
John Dewey
Randall L Stephenson
Isadore Sharp
Roger Martin on the Efficiency Myth
The Upside of London Tube Strikes
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Roger Martin on Medium
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