Roger Martin

Roger Martin, a leading expert on strategy and author of "Playing to Win," shares his insights on crafting effective business strategies. He discusses the five essential questions that drive a winning strategy and highlights why many companies fail. Martin advocates for integrating strategic thinking across all levels, not just top executives. Using examples from brands like Procter & Gamble and Southwest Airlines, he emphasizes the importance of differentiation over low cost and critiques the shortcomings of traditional strategy education.

Roger Martin, former Dean of the Rotman School of Management and a leading authority on integrative thinking, shares insights on effective leadership and decision-making. He explores how fear can hinder bold actions and identifies patterns of self-sabotage among intelligent individuals. Martin highlights the need for critical thinking and curiosity in education, emphasizing the importance of long-term resilience over short-term gains. He advocates for embracing complexity to foster innovation and better outcomes in business.

Roger Martin, strategy advisor and bestselling author, discusses the distinction between strategic planning and strategy, emphasizing the importance of influencing customer behavior and creating a unique value proposition. They also explore common mistakes in planning strategy and give advice on making strategic choices and understanding customer needs.

In this engaging discussion, Roger Martin, a renowned management consultant and former Dean of the Rotman School of Management, shares insights on integrative thinking. He challenges the obsession with efficiency, linking it to economic inequality. Martin emphasizes the need for leaders to embrace creativity and holistic decision-making over conventional analysis. He also critiques existing economic systems, advocating for capitalistic strategies that prioritize stakeholder welfare and educational models that foster critical thinking in future leaders.

Roger Martin, a global authority on strategy and former dean at the Rotman School of Management, shares insights on crafting effective business strategies. He reveals that most company strategies are mere budgeting exercises without real impact. Martin highlights the importance of a five-question framework for product strategy and critiques business schools for not teaching practical applications. He delves into the strategic innovations of companies like Southwest Airlines and emphasizes aligning customer needs with competitive strategies for actual market success.

In this conversation, Roger L. Martin, a renowned business strategist and former dean at the Rotman School of Management, discusses the evolving relationship between design and business. He delves into how Aristotle's principles can inspire innovative problem-solving beyond historical data. Roger critiques traditional business education's shortcomings and emphasizes the necessity for community-centric design amidst the Silicon Valley layoffs. He encourages embracing anomalies and fostering creativity to drive meaningful change within organizations.

Roger Martin is a bit of a legend in the strategy world. His book Playing to Win, written with former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, is a favorite in business schools. And decades of work consulting with some of the world’s most recognizable companies have cemented his place as one of today’s leading business thinkers. In this conversation, get an inside look at Roger’s approach to business strategy and hear about our newest course, Designing Strategy: https://ideo.to/u3xSQA

In this episode of The Decision Corner, Brooke is joined for the second time by Roger Martin, one the the world’s leading business minds, the former dean of the Rotman School of Business, and the author of the newly released book A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness. This time around, the two discuss how mental models guide business decisions, and how we can restructure failing mental models to improve ourselves, our teams, and our organizations. Topics discussed include: - When you should give up on your mental models - and when to keep pushing at it - Why writing down your decision making process is vital - and the dangerous behaviors that occur if you don’t - The simple, but powerful “if-then” model - How socializing strategy can help us scale over decision-making hurdles - Why you should make the most skeptical person in the room in charge of test design - How to overcome disappointing decisions - and why they are so important to make

Roger Martin, an influential business strategy thinker and author, challenges conventional management wisdom and advocates for a new approach in management effectiveness. He discusses integrative thinking and how it helps exceptional leaders make difficult decisions. They also explore the challenges of American capitalism, the importance of integrative thinking in education, and the need for a balanced approach to efficiency and resilience.

If you’re wondering where to start with strategic planning, pause for a minute before getting into tactical ideas or writing a hundred-page strategic plan of action. Focus on identifying your strategic problem first. Strategy advisor Roger Martin shares common mistakes people make in the early stages of strategic planning and how to avoid them, ways to think creatively about your strategic problem, and how to frame a question to guide your thinking. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.