Forward Thinking with Roger Martin | The Knowledge Project #97

Today on The Knowledge Project Shane is talking with Roger Martin, 2017’s number one management thinker in the world. Roger is the former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Roger discusses the hardest skill to transfer when decision making, patterns of good leadership, self-sabotage, the role of narratives in taking bold actions and integrative thinking.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:05 Lessons From Your Mother
00:01:42 Fundamentals of the Education System
00:02:28 What’s Wrong with Business Education
00:05:46 Integrative Thinking
00:09:48 4 Steps to Integrative Thinking
00:16:16 Limitations to Integrative Thinking
00:22:25 MBA Model Silos
00:26:41 Blind Spots of Managing People
00:29:16 Overuse of Science and Analysis
00:35:50 Preparing for Multiple Outcomes
00:41:59 The Agency Problem
00:50:56 Skin in the Game
00:53:02 Commonalities Between Successful Leaders
00:58:14 Develop Courage in the Face of Fear
01:07:05 Commonalities in Failings of Leaders
01:09:49 Good vs. Bad Strategy
01:11:51 Advantageous Divergence
01:21:49 The Hardest Skill to Transfer When Decision Making
01:30:02 How do you Want to be Remembered?
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[@YugalJindle]

Roger has so much to offer on strategy, I wish we spent most time on that!

[@salmadefood]

Shane is a thoughtful dude.

[@christopherbrown2490]

Love the strategy question: "What would have to be true for that to be a good idea?"

[@petrusgimbad946]

Wow. Thank you Roger for being so honest. Great learning!

[@petrusgimbad946]

Simply awesome response at the end. You are a good man Roger

[@JPBotero717]

It would be great to have Roger and Josh Kaufman in a conversation.

[@edlarmore5958]

"When the choice is between lying on a beach and getting kicked in the groin, you don't need to apply integrative thinking. I'll take lying on the beach."