Roger Martin
17 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 24, 2020 by Roger Martin · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Roger Martin: The Primary Failure Mode Is Keeping All Options Open
“The failure mode I see probably more than anything else is Somebody who is what I think of as not strategic, right? Which is that they believe that they need to always keep all their options open, not make big choices and sort of see what evolves and then just…”
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020 positive
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Roger Martin: Partial equilibrium economists outnumber general equilibrium thinkers a thousand to one
“There are a thousand partial equilibrium economists for every single general equilibrium economist. And so we have economists who kind of know everything about, you know, whatever fiscal policy, but nothing about labor policy or labor economics or environmenta…”
Nov 24, 2020
Martin: Strategy is choosing where to invest to offer superior customer value
“Well, I think about strategy as a set of choices that enables you to invest in a given place. To win, whether that's geography or business or whatever. So it, it's that set of set of choices. And what do I mean by winning? I mean, in the field of play that you…”
Nov 24, 2020
Roger Martin: Leaders who do not genuinely love people cannot be great
“I just don't know any, what I think of as great, great leaders who don't love other people.
I mean, if you think people are annoying and you have to put up with them and put up with their foibles rather than you genuinely love them, then I think you can only b…”
Nov 24, 2020
Martin: Formulating a provisional choice is the equivalent of launching a prototype
“In some sense, when you force yourself to say, this is what I would do if I had to choose now. That's the moral equivalent of putting a prototype. Into the market. I hadn't thought of it that way. Cause then you can, and you can say, oh, this happened. That, t…”
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Roger Martin: Big Companies Stifle Innovation by Requiring Prior Analytical Proof
“No new idea in the history of the world has been proven in advance analytically.
Why?
It's linked to what Aristotle said, right?
You can't prove something new and different that hasn't happened yet, analytically.
And most innovation processes in the world …”
Nov 24, 2020 positive
Roger Martin: Massive Founder Delusion Is Essential for Economic Innovation
“The economy is underpinned by delusion in, in, in that we do know that nine out of 10 kind of startups expire with a hundred percent of the resources kind of wasted.
If anybody
Thought those were the odds that they personally were facing.
They wouldn't do i…”
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Roger Martin: Harvard Business School cases artificially illustrate single narrow tools
“When you do a case study the case has been written to illustrate a tool. Right? The answer comes from applying a given tool, like, and you, and we're made to think, oh, these are just general business situations. No, they're not. The writing of Harvard Busines…”
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Martin: MBA Programs Indoctrinate Students to Be Narrow 'Tool Matchers'
“They come in indoctrinated into the notion that my job as a business person is to figure out into what category this problem that I'm facing falls and then apply that tool. Ah, this is a finance problem, so I will apply the capital asset pricing model, or this…”
Nov 24, 2020
Roger Martin: Grade 10 students solve integrative problems as well as MBAs
“These girls who were grade 10 girls, so they had definitively six fewer years of formal education, right? Grade 11, grade 12, four years of undergrad compared to our MBAs and our MBAs on average have about four and a half years of work experience. So they have…”
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020
Martin: Young children learn integrative thinking easily without entrenched binary biases
“The bottom line is, is that they don't need to be untaught anything, right? So that's their gigantic advantage. They're easily smart enough, and they don't have a view already built up that life is full of either or choices, where it's the devil or the deep bl…”
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Martin: Expecting unique success while copying competitors is a managerial conceit
“Another is, is kind of bad strategy is just trying to do the same as everybody else and assume that you're going to win anyway. You know, that's the great managerial conceit. We don't have to do anything unique or different and we will have unique success.”