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Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world’s most successful companies. From the beginning, he noted that almost every executive he talked to had a “model”―a framework or way of thinking that guided their strategy and activities. But these models tended to become automatic, so much so that when one didn’t work, the typical response was just to apply it again―with greater enthusiasm.

When company leaders came to him with fundamental questions his first response was to break the spell of the current model with a memo articulating a new way to think about the problem at hand and a more powerful and effective way to successfully overcome it.

Over time, these ideas worked their way into Martin’s many Harvard Business Review articles. Now, for the first time, they appear together in A New Way to Think. With his trademark incisive intellect and clarity, Martin covers the entire breadth of the management landscape―illuminating the true nature of competition, explaining how company success revolves around customers, revealing how strategy and execution are really the same thing, and much more.

Roger L. Martin is the Director and Founder of Roger L. Martin, Inc., a strategic advisory firm built around his works and writings. For over a decade, he was one of the leaders of Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was responsible for creating many of the tools and frameworks still used today by the successor firm, Monitor Deloitte.

Roger is also a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford adn was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.

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