Podcasts about creating great choices

Strategy advisor Roger Martin explains how 2,000 year old military thinking is useful in modern business strategy. Business leaders can gain valuable insights from history's great military strategists. Roger Martin, an author and the former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, suggests examining "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Although the text is more than 2,000 years old, Roger argues that it contains timeless philosophy that applies not only to the battlefield, but also to modern business strategy. To Roger, people often think war and business is all about numbers and hard data. But in reality, it's often just as important to think about more qualitative aspects about your company and its competition. And that's where philosophy and customer-focused design come into play. Chapters: 0:00 Is ‘The Art of War' as good as an MBA? 2:19 “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” 3:25 “There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare” 4:22 “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard” 5:05 “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” 6:28 The tripartite view of the future About Roger Martin: In 2017, Roger Martin was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Martin is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego, and Ford. Martin is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, where he served as dean from 1998-2013. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. His newest book is A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness. His previous twelve books include When More is Not Better, Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel, Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg, and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley, which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 32 Harvard Business Review articles. Martin received his BA from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. He lives in South Florida with his wife, Marie-Louise Skafte. About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. ► Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/ Get Smarter, Faster With Interviews From The Worlds Biggest Thinkers. Follow This Podcast And Turn On The Notifications Rate Us With 5 Stars Share This Episode --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigthink/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roger Martin is a Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is a trusted strategic advisor to the CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble, Lego, and Ford. In 2017, Roger was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger has authored 13 books, including When More Is Not Better, Creating Great Choices, Getting Beyond Better, Playing to Win, and his newest book, A New Way To Think. We discuss the idea of his latest book, which identifies some classic models associated with different topics in business and thinks about a more effective model for that particular topic. Join us as we discuss some of these topics, including a great conversation about incentive compensation in professional sales and a deep dive into the role of professional sales in academia and why it isn't being taught at the MBA level.   Highlights The topic of Roger's upcoming book The role of sales in academia Why aren't professional sales being taught at the MBA level? Incentive compensation in professional sales   Episode Resources Connect with Mark Cox https://www.inthefunnel.com/ https://ca.linkedin.com/in/markandrewcox https://www.facebook.com/inthefunnel markcox@inthefunnel.com Connect with Roger Martin When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness https://rogerlmartin.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-martin-9916911a9/    Call to Action In the Funnel Sales Workshop Free Sales Tools How to Listen: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

After a small summer break, we are back to kick off the year's second half with a great guest lineup. In this week's episode, we welcome Jennifer Riel, Partner and Head of Strategy at IDEO, and co-author of Creating Great Choices. We discuss the similarities between Design Thinking and Integrative Thinking and when to use each model. We also touch on the importance of decoupling ideas from the person and get into a case study of the integrative thinking process: Brand Building v. Short Term ROAS. This episode is definitely worth the listen! Enjoy the show! ____________ Our Guest: Follow Jennifer Riel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-hartnett/. IDEO Profile: https://www.ideo.com/people/jennifer-riel IDEO: https://cantwait.ideo.com/ ____________ The Sleeping Barber Podcast: Follow our updates here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sleeping-barber/ Get in touch with our hosts: Marc Binkley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbinkley/ Vassilis Douros: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vassilisdouros/ ____________ Literature: Creating Great Choices: https://www.amazon.ca/Creating-Great-Choices-Integrative-Thinking/dp/1633692965/ TEDx Talk; The Importance of Being Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_suhntFmqY  Harvard Business Review:  The One Thing you Need to Know About Managing Functions Transcending Either or Decision Making ____________ Timestamps: 0:45 - Intro to Jennifer & using integrative thinking to create great choices 2:30 - Similarities between Design Thinking and Integrative Thinking 7:48 - When to use each thinking model 9:30 - The fundamental question for strategy 12:30 - Why do we need to make time for creating great choices 18:52 - How incentives influence our decisions 23:55 - The cost of failure changes over time 26:45 - How to engage with other people 29:08 - Why we should decouple people from ideas 33:20 - What leaders and executives can learn from kids and Jay Z 39:06 - No judgement: IDEO's rule for brainstorming 40:37 - Why creativity (not artistry) is essential in decision making 43:24 - How to know when to use integrative thinking 49:54 - A case study of the integrative thinking process: Brand Building v. Short Term ROAS 1:07:49 - How to find out more about Jennifer 1:08:32 - Post Pod discussion with V and Marc

Roger Martin is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford. In 2017, he was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. In this engaging talk with Dan Pontefract, Roger discusses his newest book, "A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness." Roger is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019 and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. He has written twelve other books including When More is Not Better, Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley, which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50.

A New Way to Think Over 300 episodes ago we were joined by Roger L. Martin to talk about ideas from his book The Opposable Mind. In the years since, I have personally benefited from Roger's insights in books such as The Design of Business and Creating Great Choices. Roger joins us again in this episode to talk about his newest book entitled A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness. If you just glanced at the book, you might think it's only relevant to CEOs and other top leaders. But there are ideas in this book that anyone leading projects and teams would benefit from. In this episode, Roger discusses the value and pitfalls of following popular models. He shares insights on why we need to get closer to the customer and how one of his friends and co-authors did that as CEO of Proctor & Gamble. You'll hear Roger explain why the familiar solution usually trumps the perfect one and why we just might make better decisions if we focus on what must be true instead of what is true. We talk about all that and more--it's a conversation I've been looking forward to sharing with you for many weeks. Learn more about Roger and his books at RogerLMartin.com. For more insights related to this episode, check out: Episode 54 for my previous conversation with Roger about his book The Opposable Mind Episode 47 for my conversation with Henry Mintzberg, the revered and curmudgeonly expert on management Join our Global LEAD52 Community Ready to take your leadership skills to the next level? LEAD52 is your 5-minute weekly pass to leadership intelligence. You get 52 weeks of learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And it's all for free. Join us at https://GetLEAD52.com. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   The following music was used for this episode: Music: Hip Hop Flute Chill(loopable} by chilledmusic Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8531-hip-hop-flute-chillloopable License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Funky Life by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6040-funky-life License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to episode #826 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #826 - Host: Mitch Joel. Don't take my word for it, but Roger Martin is one of the world's top business thinkers in the world. I do think this is true. In 2017, Roger was named the world's #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, an annual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, LEGO and Ford. He is is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. His newest book is, A New Way to Think - Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness. His previous twelve books include, When More is Not Better, Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel), Getting Beyond Better (with Sally Osberg), and Playing To Win (with A.G. Lafley). He has written thirty Harvard Business Review articles and writing every week on Medium as well. If you love big thinking about business, this episode is for. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 57:24. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Roger Martin. A New Way to Think - Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness. When More is Not Better. Creating Great Choices. Getting Beyond Better. Playing To Win. Roger on Medium. Follow Roger on LinkedIn. Follow Roger on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Economists, policy makers, and business decision makers all agree on efficiency as a goal, with more better than less and who could object? Well, it all depends, of course on how the objectives are formulated and what you are missing. That's the idea behind Roger Martin's latest book When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession With Economic Efficiency. Roger Martin is the former dean and current emeritus professor of strategy at the Rotman School at the University of Toronto, and the author of numerous other books, including Creating Great Choices, Getting Beyond Better And Playing To win. Listen in as Greg and Roger chat about resiliency, acknowledging tradeoffs, over investing in exploitation, and how focusing too much on data analytics is malpractice.Episode Quotes:When efficiency becomes unproductive:If you push it past a point, you stop thinking about things that don't lend themselves easily to a measurement of efficiency but help make a system work better, whatever system you're looking at. Your company, your country, your town, your household. If you try to make every relationship with your partner, your children, your dog as efficient as possible, at a point it would become a miserable place, right? And it might actually fall apart because you aren't paying attention to, is this a resilient family or resilient household or resilient town.How to think about knowledge:The right way I would argue to think about knowledge is we don't build knowledge. We subtract to get knowledge. When something is a mystery, you don't even know how to think about it. So you've got to think about everything in all possibilities.Why is the business world siloed?:The reason for dividing the business world into silos is in some sense for exploitation, right? It's to understand a narrow field, as we've defined it better and better. Not to do things like explore how that field may relate to other fields, how that field maybe not a good definition of a field, or any of those things. It's exploitation, oriented in for convenience exploitation. Show Links:Guest Profile:Roger Martin's WebsiteRoger Martin on LinkedinRoger Martin on TwitterRoger Martin on Medium.comProfessional Profile at the Rotman School, University of TorontoHis Work:When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative ThinkingGetting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works Playing to Win: How Strategy Really WorksFixing the Game: How Runaway Expectations Broke the Economy, and How to Get Back to RealityThe Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive AdvantageThe Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative ThinkingThe Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of True Partnership

Roger L. Martin is Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, where he served as Dean from 1998 to 2013, and as Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013 to 2019. In 2013, he was named Global Dean of the Year and in 2017, he was named the world's #1 management thinker. He has published 11 previous books including, most recently, Creating Great Choices with Jennifer Riel; Getting Beyond Better with Sally Osberg; and Playing to Win with A.G. Lafley, which won the award for Best Book of 2012–13 by Thinkers50. He has written 28 Harvard Business Review articles. Martin is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of many global companies and originally hails from Ontario, Canada.

In this episode of the podcast, Brooke is joined by Roger Martin, an experienced strategy advisor, former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and co-author of Creating Great Choices. Together, the two explore business models and how we can make great choices when faced with incongruity. Supported with real-world examples, the discussion addresses how we should move forward when we don't get the outcomes we hoped for. Some specific topics include: Our disinclination toward compromise and how to get around making “either/or” decisions Bob Young and his company Red Hat, who took two unappealing choices and built a superior model amidst the free software movement The ladder of inference that leads us to focus on monoliths How the Toronto International Film Festival overcame the power of monoliths and became the most important film festival in the world The three steps for integrative thinking, an alternative to accepting polarized situations How Roger transformed the Rotman School of Management into one of the highest-ranked business schools in research How people can work toward integrative thinking through their everyday choices

I am so excited to share my conversation with my friend and mentor, Roger Martin with you. Roger is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management, which is the business school at the University of Toronto. He has also been named the world's number one management thinker by Thinkers50. My coauthor András Tilscik, who also teaches at Rotman, introduced us. Over the years, Roger has been a real guide for me as I build my own practice and thinking around systems. -NOTE FOR CLAIRE: or… “I got to know Roger through my coauthor…” Roger has written 11 books, a lot of which are about systems thinking and unpacking very hard problems into palatable and digestible and, frankly, actionable pieces. They're all great.  Two highlights are Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel) and Playing to Win. If you listen to my conversation with David Burkus, you'll hear us talk about Roger's playing to win philosophy as applied to our own businesses.   In this episode, we discuss his most recent book, When More is Not Better, Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency. It's basically a way of thinking about the broader economic-political system in terms of systems. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

It was an honour for EMEA Recruitment to welcome Roger Martin as a guest on our podcast recently. In 2017, Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He was ranked 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th in the other ranking years over the past decade. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford. Roger has written 12 books and 28 Harvard Business Review articles. His newest book is When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). His previous 11 books include: Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (HBRP, 2017), Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013); Fixing the Game (HBRP, 2011); The Design of Business (HBRP, 2009); The Opposable Mind (HBRP, 2007); and The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, 2002). Both Getting Beyond Better and Playing to Win won best book awards at Thinkers 50. In this podcast we cover: Being named the world’s number one management thinker 03:42 Roger’s journey and what has led him to his career 04:02 Lessons from life 10:24 What connects Roger’s writing and the importance of thinking differently 14:30 Difficult decisions 15:35 How Roger helps CEOs frame up choices 17:23 Applying theories and techniques on leadership 21:30 Roger’s new book - When More Is Not Better 22:35 Roger’s thoughts on the implications of business analytics and data 26:27 Aristotle and Cause and Effect 27:11 Some of the problems with using business analytics 30:07 How COs react to Roger’s advice 38:03 Interrogating and articulating your gut feeling 44:00 Roger’s mentors 53:12 Why writing is thinking 57:46 How to connect with Roger 1:04:24 We hope you enjoy the podcast and look forward to seeing your comments and shares.  If you want to reach out to Roger, you can connect with him through LinkedIn on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-martin-9916911a9 Or visit Roger’s website: https://rogerlmartin.com/   The podcast is hosted by founder of EMEA; Paul Toms and Executive Recruiter and Senior Consultant; Jenny Callum.   To find out more about EMEA recruitment visit: https://emearecruitment.eu   Follow EMEA Recruitment on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/emea-recruitment-limited/   Or connect with Paul on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomsemea   Or Jenny at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennycallumemea   Please like and share the post so your network can benefit from this advice.   If you have any questions or topics you would like EMEA Recruitment to cover in our podcasts in the future, please send me a message on LinkedIn and we will look to help as much as possible.   #emearecruitmentpodcast #paultoms #jennycallum #emearecruitment #switzerland #thenetherlands #singapore #rogermartin #thinkers50

Professor Roger Martin is a writer, strategy advisor and currently #1 ranked management thinker in world. He is also former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50.

Holiday Mentors, Profitable Podcasts, Trauma Therapy, and More Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got holiday mentors, profitable podcasts, trauma therapy, and more. For all the links, check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/2018-12-04-process-hacker-news-holiday-mentors-profitable-podcasts-trauma-therapy-and-more/. Enjoy! Events Why not eat, drink, be merry, and get mentored by design experts this season? Cascade SF, founded by Andi Galpern, is bringing you Holiday Mentor Night on December 11 in San Francisco. If you missed out on Finish Up Weekend last September, here’s another chance to join! Alex Hillman invites you to get on the list while it’s early and enjoy a weekend of productivity from January 25 to 27 at Indy Hall in Philadelphia. Courses Become a certified coach through Courageous Living Coach Certification, a training program created by Kate Swoboda. Registration for 2019 trainees is open until December 10. Media The National Business Book Awards official podcast, Curating the Business Conversation, recently kicked off their first episode, which features Jennifer Riel discussing integrative thinking as described in her book, Creating Great Choices. Entrepreneur and podcaster Jordan Harbinger joins Tom Morkes on the In the Trenches Podcast to share some of his secrets about starting and growing a profitable podcast. Seth Godin was also a recent guest on Tom’s show. Jessica Spaulding of Harlem Chocolate Factory shares her ups and downs as an entrepreneur on the Side Hustle Pro podcast, hosted by Nicaila Matthews-Okome. Writing Have you heard that Tara Hunt is dropping the word “Social” from the Truly Social brand? Read her newest LinkedIn post to learn why. Christine Henderson just published this interview with Maria Dismondy, in which Maria shares her background, her writing journey, and her approach to social media management. Recommended Resources On The Trauma Therapist with Guy Macpherson, who was recommended by Lisa Dale Miller, Trauma Consultant Margi Bennett speaks about human rights and trauma advocacy. Kimberly Bryant, one of Michelle Kim’s influences, shares her background, the foundation, and the mission of Black Girls Code in an article on Success. The Healing Power of Mindfulness, the third installment of the Coming to Our Senses series by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is now out. Jon is a prominent figure in the mindfulness community who has touched the lives of many practitioners, such as Bill Duane, Rhonda Magee, and Lisa Dale Miller. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got personalized marketing, fear of failure, sharp iron, and more. For all the links or to watch the video, check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/2018-10-16-process-hacker-news-personalized-marketing-fear-of-failure-sharp-iron-and-more/ Enjoy! Events If you’re looking for more information about integrative thinking, Jennifer Riel, co-author of Creating Great Choices, will be speaking at TEDxToronto on October 26. Changemakers: NYC speaker series will feature Steve Goldbach and other executives on October 19 discussing dynamic entrepreneurship and disruptive intrapreneurship. Community Brennan Dunn, co-founder of the RightMessage website personalization service, has just launched the Personalization Marketing Mastermind with RightMessage where folks can share ideas and learn about personalization marketing strategies. Media Fear of failure can hold us back from even trying. Listen as Byron Morrison inspires you to move forward in his latest vlog on The Freedom Mindset Show. In the latest episode of Kate Swoboda’s podcast, Kate announced she’s coming out with a new book: The Gift of Coaching! Tune in to the episode to discover what’s in store and how the book came about. Marisa Murgatroyd, referenced by Nicole Holland, talks about online courses and her career shift on In the Trenches Podcast with Tom Morkes. Writing Culture Amp’s list of 21 diversity and inclusion influencers just came out, and it includes Hack the Process guest Michelle Kim. Congratulations to Sasha Ariel Alston for being chosen as an honoree in Her Campus’s 22 most inspiring college women under 22! Engineering managers, be sure to check out Ron Lichty‘s thoughts about a programmer’s motivation in his recent interview for Plusplus. Recommended Resources Tickets for the upcoming Success Squared event in Australia with Gary Vaynerchuk are sold out, but folks willing to drop by Las Vegas can catch him at the National Achievers Congress Conference on November 26. Hack the Process guests who were influenced by Gary include Malek Banoun and Tara Hunt. Iron Sharpens Iron is a life-transforming men’s mastermind led by Aaron Walker, whose previous mastermind Engel Jones was a part of. Check out a video of Iron Sharpens Iron’s past events to see what goes on and find out if it might be right for you. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

Mitch Joel in conversation with Jennifer Riel who co-authored Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking along with Roger Martin. They chat about the value of failing fast; why staying open to opposing, potentially uncomfortable perspectives may be the key to true integrative – and innovative - thinking; and, of course, how The Lego Movie does a good job of capturing the spirit of this book. This is part of the 2018 National Business Book Award nominees podcast series. Produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnson for Church + State.

In this podcast Jennifer Harris (@JenniferRiel) sat with Vishal (@Vishaltx from @AnalyticsWeek) to discuss her book "Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking". She sheds light on the importance of integrating thinking in generating long lasting solutions. She shared some of the innovative ways business could get to creative problem solving that prevent bias and isolation and brings diversity in the opinion. Jennifer also spoke about the challenges that tribalism brings to the quality of decision making. This conversation and her book is great for anyone looking to create a futureproof organization that takes measured decision for effective outcome. Her Book Link: Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking by Jennifer Riel (Author), Roger L. Martin (Author) https://amzn.to/2JGeljS Jennifer's Recommended Read: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Tony Tanner https://amzn.to/2MbHkeb Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman https://amzn.to/2sNzgbt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt https://amzn.to/2xUZFZD Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant Ph.D. https://amzn.to/2xYtWHa Podcast Link: iTunes: http://math.im/jofitunes GooglePlay: http://math.im/jofgplay Here is Jennifer's Bio: Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time. Jennifer is the co-author of Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking (with Roger L. Martin, former Dean of the Rotman School of Management). Based on a decade of teaching and practice with integrative thinking, the book lays out a practical methodology for tackling our most vexing business problems. Using illustrations from organizations like LEGO, Vanguard and Unilever, The book shows how individuals can leverage the tension of opposing ideas to create a third, better way forward. An award-winning teacher, Jennifer leads training on integrative thinking, strategy and innovation at organizations of all types, from small non-profits to some of the largest companies in the world. About #Podcast: #JobsOfFuture podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers and lead practitioners to come on show and discuss their journey in creating the work, worker and workplace of the future. Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: #JobsOfFuture JobsOfFuture Jobs of future Future of work Leadership Strategy

One of the roles great leaders play is the facilitation of great choices across their organizations. That means it’s not just about the leader themselves being skilled at making choices, but also about their ability to transfer that skill to the members of their team. Roger Martin is a pioneer in the realm of integrative thinking, an approach to problem-solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. In this conversation, Roger and I speak about his new book, “Creating Great Choices” and how leaders and managers can build amazing teams of people who make the very best choices every time. We Can Now Code Our Knowledge To Apply It More Efficiently. But Should We? With so much talk about A.I (artificial intelligence) and the reality of it growing almost daily, it’s easy to think that the day will come when human contributions will be marginalized in favor of more precise, computer learning alternatives. But Roger Martin makes the point that just because some choices can be turned into algorithms, doesn’t mean they should be. There is and will always be a need for a human touch in a number of contexts where the savvy and intuition needed to make great choices simply can’t be applied via computer code. Join me to learn how Roger sees A.I. benefiting mankind and to hear where he has concerns, on this episode. Modern digital narcissism is of great concern to Roger Martin In making the point that not all problems should be solved via code or algorithm, Roger points to instances where the implementation of technology that allows for self-driving cars has cost the lives of people. His concern is that in our zeal to make solutions of that kind we will continue to put individuals at risk instead of recognizing that the solutions as they are currently being applied are unacceptable. He calls it modern digital narcissism and cautions against it. Listen to my conversation with Roger to hear what he recommends as a better way forward, on this episode of Masters of Leadership. There Are No Natural-Born Managers. Greatness Comes Over Time When it comes to those who are managing people in the workplace, Roger suggests that in order to grow, today’s leaders have to avoid the two pitfalls common to most leaders: #1 - Don’t be so perfectionistic as to think that you can’t try something you don’t know how to do yet. If you fail, that’s not on you, that’s on life. #2 - Use the opportunity to grow by asking key questions: What did you think was going to happen? What really happened? What caused it to happen? Was there bias or preconceived assumptions involved in producing the outcome? Learning to try new things and grow from those attempts is the best way to develop greatness in decision making. Anybody Can Have Something Unbelievably Expert About Them It’s important to realize that the contributions needed in order to overcome unacceptable or seemingly insurmountable obstacles hardly ever come through the ingenuity of one person. Collaboration is how great things are accomplished. Roger cautions: Never dismiss someone because of A, B, and C, because D may be spectacular. If you write them off before discovering the areas where they have unbelievable knowledge or expertise, you are robbing the entire collaborative effort of its power. Roger’s insights are valuable for leaders at any level, so be sure you take the time to listen. Outline of This Episode [1:29] Leadership defined from Roger’s perspective [3:15] The most important elements of Roger’s newest book, “Creating Great Choices” [7:12] Why models shape what we see in the world [11:58] How the digital/virtual workplace impacts the questions leaders need to ask [19:11] Actions today’s leaders should be taking Resources & People Mentioned Roger Martin Roger on Twitter: @RogerLMartin The Martin Prosperity Institute The Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Leadership BOOK: Creating Great Choices BOOK: Playing to Win Jennifer Riel Connect with Erica Erica@cotentialgroup.com Linkedin.com/in/ericadhawan Twitter.com/edhawan Facebook.com/ericadhawan

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week’s guest is Roger Martin. Roger is the former Dean of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, has been named “The Most Influential Business Thinker” by Thinkers50, and he advises CEOs worldwide. Roger is the author of ten books, including Creating Great Choices, a follow-up to his 2007 best-seller The Opposable Mind. THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… someone with a different style of thinking. TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… is the play between strategy and making choices. Roger’s unique perspective combines strategy and making choices. Roger believes the two ideas are interconnected because, simply put, you cannot make choices if you don’t have a strategy. And you can’t have a strategy without making choices. Roger opines that strategy is what you do, whereas choices put you in the position to behave. Just like every organization has a strategy, so does every person, and strategy comes with a choice. Roger believes that execution happens because of choices made somewhere in the hierarchy.  Roger says the “gap between strategy and execution [is] the setting of the direction.” Past guests have said time and again that everything starts at the top— and Roger is no different.  WHAT I LOVE MOST… integrative thinking. Creating solutions is about taking what’s not good enough and creating something better, rather than compromising. IF YOU WANT TO APPROACH THINGS DIFFERENTLY…. follow Gandhi. This may not be what you were expecting, but the adage “Be the change” could not be more appropriate.  Don’t tell people what you’re going to do.  You actually have to do it.  Roger advises, “Don’t be a smarty pants.”  I couldn’t agree more.   Running time: 29:43   Subscribe on iTunes   Find Tiffani on social: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn   Find Roger on social: Website Twitter

We take a look at integrative thinking, a problem-solving theory that MPI Institute director Roger Martin conceived about a dozen years ago. He’s written two books on the subject, 2007’s The Opposable Mind, and the just-released Creating Great Choices, co-authored by Jennifer Riel. Put simply, integrative thinking is a technique through which two opposing ideas are “resolved” by taking the best elements of each to create a new, better idea. The theory was born out of Roger’s quest to get inside the heads of highly successful business leaders like Jack Welch and AG Lafley. But integrative thinking isn’t some business-speak laden theory reserved for managers. Rather, its premise can be applied to almost any situation, from the halls of government to elementary school classrooms.

Are you working through a challenge doesn’t seem to have an obvious solution? Roger Martin, advisor, business educator, and author of Creating Great Choices, believes that successful options come from a solid methodology to map out the problem and opposing ideas for solving it. In the next CareerCast, Roger will share his approach, perspective, and insights to help you breakthrough obstacles, advance toward your goals, and enhance your success, confidence, and courage.

Welcome to episode #586 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast.  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #586 - Host: Mitch Joel. A legend in the world of business, leadership and management. A true legend. That is a fact when it comes to Roger Martin. Roger has published over ten bestselling business books, the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel), Getting Beyond Better and Playing to Win. He is known as being one of the individuals behind the inception of concepts like "design thinking" and "integrative thinking." He's an academic (the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier's Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean as well) and deep thinker (he has written a ton of article for Harvard Business Review and placed third on the 2013 Thinkers50 list. When big companies need to think differently about innovation and strategy, they turn to Roger. In this episode, we discuss his latest book, Creating Great Choices, on integrative thinking and the current business landscape. Enjoy the conversation... Running time: 1:04:01. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here is my conversation with Roger Martin. Creating Great Choices. Martin Prosperity Institute. Rotman School of Management. Follow Roger on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #586 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: academic advertising advertising podcast audio blog blogging brand branding business blog business book business landscape business podcast business thinker creating great choices david usher design thinking digital marketing digital marketing agency digital marketing blog facebook getting beyond better google harvard business review innovation integrative thinking itunes j walter thompson jennifer riel jwt leadership leadership podcast management management podcast marketing marketing blog marketing podcast martin prosperity institute michael lee chin family institute for corporate citizenship mirum mirum agency mirum agency blog mirum blog mirum podcast playing to win roger l martin roger martin rotman rotman school of management social media strategy thinkers 50 thinkers50 twitter wpp

Jennifer Riel illustrates how successful thinkers can create great choices rather than tolerate unacceptable trade-offs via her practical methodology for implementing integrated thinking.   You'll Learn: Why you should fall in love with opposing approaches to solving a problem How to hold two approaches in tension to discover optimal solutions The three questions to creating better answers   About Jennifer: Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time. An award-winning teacher, Jennifer leads training on integrative thinking, strategy and innovation, both at the Rotman School and at organizations of all types, from small non-profits to some of the largest companies in the world.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep211

Jennifer Riel illustrates how successful thinkers can create great choices rather than tolerate unacceptable trade-offs via her practical methodology for implementing integrated thinking.   You'll Learn: Why you should fall in love with opposing approaches to solving a problem How to hold two approaches in tension to discover optimal solutions The three questions to creating better answers   About Jennifer: Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time.

Jennifer Riel illustrates how successful thinkers can create great choices rather than tolerate unacceptable trade-offs via her practical methodology for implementing integrated thinking.You'll Learn:1) Why you should fall in love with opposing approaches to solving a problem2) How to hold two approaches in tension to discover optimal solutions3) The three questions to creating better answersAbout JenniferJennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time. An award-winning teacher, Jennifer leads training on integrative thinking, strategy and innovation, both at the Rotman School and at organizations of all types, from small non-profits to some of the largest companies in the world.Items Mentioned in this Show:Sponsor: TextExpander, the productivity multiplierBook: Creating Great Choices by Jennifer Riel & Roger L. MartinBook: The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them – And They Shape Us by Raymond Fisman & Tim SullivanBook: The Opposable Mind by Roger L. MartinBook: The Revenge of Analog by David SaxEvent: Toronto International Film FestivalPeople: A. G. Lafley, Hillary Austin, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, Piers HandlingSchool: Rotman School of Management – University of TorontoAward: Palme d'OrView transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep211.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.