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  • A New Way to Think

    Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

    Named one of "10 Must-Read Career and Leadership Books For 2022" by ForbesThe ultimate guide to the essentials of strategy and management, from one of the world's top business thinkers.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 ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing to Win, Expanded with Bonus HBR Articles

    How Strategy Really Works

    The proven playbook for winning—now updated with a new foreword and two bonus HBR articles.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 few companies do well.In this contemporary business classic, now with a foreword by former Harvard Business Review editor in chief Adi Ignatius and insightful ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Opposable Mind

    How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

    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 situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating Great Choices

    A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

    Move Beyond Trade-Off ThinkingWhen 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? In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fixing the Game

    Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

    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 string of ethics breaches, including accounting scandals, options-backdating schemes, and the subprime ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design of Business

    Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

    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 get disappointing results.Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a compelling and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of the MBA

    Designing the Thinker of the Future

    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 graduates; corporations are hiring more business school graduates every year, and compensating ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • When More Is Not Better

    Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency

    American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with ever-increasing levels of efficiency spurred by division of labor, international trade, and scientific management of companies. By the nation's ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Beyond Better

    How Social Entrepreneurship Works

    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 new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries, or ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Weeks in the Midday Sun

    A Cannes Notebook

    by Roger Ebert ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning critic recounts his visit to the 1987 Cannes Film Festival while commenting on movies, celebrities, and the industry's future."Perhaps the best book ever written about experiencing the Cannes Film Festival. . . . Classic." — Bright Lights Film JournalMore about people than movies, this book is an intimate, quirky, and witty account of the parade of personalities ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SuperCooperators

    Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

    EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature “red in tooth and claw”?Martin Nowak, one of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Canada

    What It Is, What It Can Be

    Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take their place alongside developed economies, we cannot be complacent. Our high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health care, and social safety nets exist only to the extent that we are innovative and competitive ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD