Roger L. Martin

The ultimate guide to the essentials of strategy and management, from one of the world's top business thinkers. Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. From the beginning, he noted that almost every executive he talked to had a "model"-a framework or way of thinking that guided their strategy and activities. But these models tended to become automatic, so much so that when one didn't...

American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it's getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we've seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a string of ethics breaches, including accounting scandals, options-backdating schemes, and the subprime mortgage debacle. Just what is going on here? Is it...

Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need? In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and superior answer. This is integrative thinking. First...

Jugar para ganar, un destacado best seller en The Wall Street Journal y The Washington Post, describe el enfoque estratégico que A. G. Lafley,en colaboración con el asesor estratégico Roger L. Martin, utilizó para duplicar las ventas de P&G, cuadruplicar sus ganancias y aumentar su valor de mercado en más de cien mil millones de dólares siendo el CEO de la compañía entre los años 2000 y 2009. El libro muestra a los líderes cualquier tipo...

Lead change amid constant turbulence and disruption. Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you successfully transform your organization. With insights from leading experts including John Kotter, Tim Brown, and Roger Martin, this book will inspire you to: • Master...