A new way to think Your guide to superior management effectiveness

Roger L. Martin

eAudio - 2022

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 work, the typical response was just to apply it again-with greater enthusiasm. Martin took a fresh, critical approach to helping. When company leaders came to him with fundamental questions-How do you decide where to play and how to win? What is the key to shaping and changing corporate culture? How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?-his first response was to ...break the spell of the current model with a memo articulating a new way to think about the problem at hand and a more powerful and effective way to overcome it. Over time, these ideas worked their way into Martin's many Harvard Business Review articles. Now, for the first time, they appear together in A New Way to Think. With his trademark incisive intellect and clarity, Martin covers the entire breadth of the management landscape-illuminating the true nature of competition, explaining how company success revolves around customers, revealing how strategy and execution are really the same thing, and much more.

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Published
[United States] : Ascent Audio 2022.
Language
English
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hoopla digital
Main Author
Roger L. Martin (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Stephen R. Thorne (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
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Instantly available on hoopla.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 58 min.)) : digital
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781663718631
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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In A New Way to Think, Martin (emer., Univ. of Toronto, Canada), a strategy consultant of more than 40 years, challenges the management world's generally accepted way of thinking about strategy and management. He argues that many of today's dominant management frameworks, mental models, analysis tools, theories, etc. are no longer the optimal guides for business decisions. They have become too stale and automatic to produce the best results. After making this dramatic argument, he offers 14 alternative models he has developed over his long career to challenge the dominant theories on both macro and micro levels. Martin's new models address existential topics, such as the basis of competition, and operational topics, such as the best goals of an M&A, and they provide fresh insights and perspectives. Clearly written and fairly argued, this book is a valuable resource for managers reexamining basic business paradigms and for students of business theory. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates, professionals, general readers. --Genifer Snipes, University of Oregon

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