Roger Martin
Strategy writer and Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he was Dean from 1998 to 2013; co-author with A.G. Lafley of Playing to Win.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter Drucker
Unlike the revision I had started to read, the original is flat-out brilliant, packed full of absolute wisdom across its 800+ pages. On utility, it is an A+!
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 10 Mar 2025 · Report
Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
This course taught the chapters of his Competitive Strategy book that was being released to the public at the same time I was being taught the course. That book broke new ground and fundamentally changed a field.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 22 Apr 2024 · Report
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
The bad news is that at the time of the writing of the book — and more so now, 40 years later — there was absolutely nothing new in these two conceptual insights.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 22 Apr 2024 · Report
The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard Rumelt
My response to him was that the book was all right-minded, but contained nothing of consequence that I hadn’t written about before.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 8 Apr 2024 · Report
How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp
Do I love it all? No, I never love everything in a book. But I liked most of it.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 31 Jul 2023 · Report
The Good Jobs Strategy by Zeynep Ton
I think of it as one of the handful of books written in the 21st century that I find most valuable to my thinking and work (along with The Mystery of Capital, (Growth) Mindset, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Good Jobs Strategy, and Grit
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 31 Jul 2023 · Report
The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
I think of it as one of the handful of books written in the 21st century that I find most valuable to my thinking and work (along with The Mystery of Capital, (Growth) Mindset, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Good Jobs Strategy, and Grit
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 31 Jul 2023 · Report
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
I think of it as one of the handful of books written in the 21st century that I find most valuable to my thinking and work (along with The Mystery of Capital, (Growth) Mindset, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Good Jobs Strategy, and Grit
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 31 Jul 2023 · Report
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
A consequential impact on my thinking was The Checklist Manifesto, the 2009 best-seller by Atul Gawande.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 3 Jul 2023 · Report
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
In rereading BMG for this article, I was impressed with how modern it felt. It is 13 years old, and I would argue that it has held up well.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 29 May 2023 · Report
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
The 2002 best-seller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan ticks all five boxes and is my least favorite of all time.
on rogerlmartin.substack.com · 24 Oct 2022 · Report
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