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”\u2014a 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\u2014with greater enthusiasm.<\/p>\n
Martin took a fresh, critical approach to helping. When company leaders came to him with fundamental questions\u2014How 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?\u2014his 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.<\/p>\n
Over time, these ideas worked their way into Martin’s many\u00a0Harvard Business Review<\/i>\u00a0articles. Now, for the first time, they appear together in\u00a0A New Way to Think<\/i>. With his trademark incisive intellect and clarity, Martin covers the entire breadth of the management landscape\u2014illuminating 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.<\/p>\n