Roger L Martin: 12 books
Fixing the Game
Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it’s getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we’ve seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a...
The Opposable Mind
How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular...
Getting Beyond Better
How Social Entrepreneurship Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it?
In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely...
Playing to Win
How Strategy Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Are you just playing-or playing to win?
Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future-something that doesn’t happen in most companies.
Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get...
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article “Customer Loyalty Is Overrated”) (HBR’s 10 Must Reads)
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Daniel...
Design of Business
Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they...
Creating Great Choices
A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking
When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need?...
Diaminds
Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.
Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum...
The Future of the MBA
Designing the Thinker of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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by Douglas B McGregor, Paul H P A Illing, Roger Aldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Fundamental Toxicology is a concise and comprehensive review of toxicology. It is based on the highly successful Fundamental Toxicology for Chemists and has been enriched and expanded. Every chapter in this new edition has been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added. With contributions...