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World-Class Explorers: Leading the Design-Thinking Organization
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-5505BC-EHow can the circus be updated for today's more sophisticated tastes? This was the question that Guy Lalibert , founder of Cirque du Soleil, asked himself. The answer was a show that after 25 years is still innovating its format and delighting its audiences around the world to the tune of $600 million a year. His great innovation? To cultivate an environment that consciously put creativity before profit making. This chapter discusses the ways in ...Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 4. How to Win
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7112BC-EStrategyP&G's Single Most Important Strategic Lesson."Starting at €8.20
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The Public Corporation Is Finally in Eclipse
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F1404F-EEconomicsIn 1989 Michael C. Jensen wrote an article for HBR titled "Eclipse of the Public Corporation," in which he analyzed early leveraged buyouts and identified a new form of corporate organization, the LBO association, which he believed would eventually outperform the traditional public company. Here Martin agrees with Jensen's assessment but acknowledges that it won't come to pass for some time, primarily because LBO associations rely on the existenc...Starting at €8.20
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Don't Get Blinded by the Numbers
Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F1103E-EStrategyRoger Martin on a new challenge facing business schools: how to teach managers to look beyond the data and use factors such as empathy and trust when making important decisions.Starting at €8.20
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Dancing Through Complexity: Shaping Resolutions by Resisting Simplification
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8211BC-EThis chapter identifies how the twin forces of simplification and specialization-hallmarks of modern life and business-discourage integrative thinking, and describes how these forces can be countered. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20
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Reality, Resistance, and Resolution: How Integrative Thinkers Keep Their Options Open
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8209BC-EThis chapter illustrates how some business leaders have explored the tensions between opposing models of reality, and found creative solutions that go beyond trade-offs. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20
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Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data
Scherer, Stephen; Martin, RogerArticle HBS-F0911B-EStrategyRoger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks with renowned autism and genomics researcher Stephen Scherer about how to tackle a big, messy problem.Starting at €8.20
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A Leap of the Mind: How Integrative Thinkers Connect the Dots
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8217BC-EThis chapter reviews three powerful tools for improving your integrative thinking capacity, offering aspiring integrative thinkers a few lessons from the work of Taddy Blecher, cofounder of CIDA City Campus, an innovative South African university. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20
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Playing to Win: 5. Play to Your Strengths
Lafley, A.G.; Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-7114BC-EStrategywhere-to-play and how-to-win. The authors discuss this step in the context of P&G's acquisition of Gillette and the overall choice cascade for this strategy. They present an adaptation of Michael Porter's "activity system" as a guide for identifying an organization's most important activities and ensuring that they are feasible, distinctive, and defensible. The authors also apply this concept in organizations with more than one product line and ...Starting at €8.20
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Mapping the Mind: How Thought Circulates--Unlocking Your Integrative Thinking Ability
Martin, RogerBook Chapter HBS-8213BC-EIn this chapter, the author introduces a framework for building integrative thinking capacity and describes how your personal knowledge system works. This chapter is excerpted from "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking."Starting at €8.20