This is the second part of our interview series with Roger Martin about his new book: "A new way to think".
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- Roger's Video on a plan is not a strategy: • A Plan Is Not a Strategy
- First Interview with Roger about Culture: • A New Way to Think I C...
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If you want to jump to the Key Messages in this video, take a look below:
3:30 The larger the spreadsheets the more confident the organization is in its process. All those numbers, all those analyses feel scientific… and in the modern world scientific equals good.
7:08 It comes about imagining the future
11:15 Some things need to be believed until they are seen
21:10 Ask the question: What's happening at the fringes? What's happening with the outliers?
23:00 A strategy is a set of choices that compels people you don't control the customer to take actions that you would like them to take
27:25 What choices do we face
36:35 If you show me a company where the planners are different from the doers, I will show you a company where what gets done is different from what was planned
52:50 With the possibilities based approach, the choice making step becomes simple even anticlimatic, the group needs only to review the analytical test results and choose the possibility that faces the fewest serious barriers.
57:10 Three fundamental shifts in mindset:
1. Instead of what should we do to what might we.
2. Instead of what do I believe to what should I have to believe.
3. Instead of what is the right answer to what are the right questions
1:00:19 Big data can eliminate reliance on gut feel decision making
1:07:00 You must imagine possibilities and choose the one for which the most compelling argument can be made
1:16:02 The real skill that is not developed in the business world is the skill in argumentation where you don't have data