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A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

Martin, Roger L. · 2022

A management guide that challenges conventional business frameworks and proposes alternative ways of thinking about strategy, execution, culture, and organizational effectiveness. Martin argues that poor business results stem not from insufficient effort but from flawed underlying models, and offers a framework for rethinking common management problems.

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What this book knows

Dominant management models mislead; better mental models — on strategy, competition, talent, and capital — produce consistently superior decisions.

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mind-and-cognition

A more effective model holds that unconscious habit is a much more powerful driver of customer behavior than conscious loyalty.
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Research into the workings of the human brain suggests that the mind loves automaticity more than just about anything else — certainly more than engaging in conscious consideration.
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How would you know that an idea was 'great' if it was 'poorly executed'? The only observable thing is that the idea failed to deliver.
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Compensation packages are strongly correlated with company size, and an acquisition makes it bigger. Even failed acquisitions can be personally profitable.
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The way to win the loyalty of your stars is to be the provider of opportunities that enable them to keep growing and learning, each in their own individual way.
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Sharp committed to putting candidates through five interviews, hired for attitude rather than experience, making entry-level jobs the starting point of a career.
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