Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): Why are so many people bad at strategy? Roger Martin (00:00:02): What's taught now in business schools generally sucks. People aren't prepared educationally, and they sure don't get prepared for it in companies. It's intellectually challenging and it's emotionally intimidating. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:15): You have something you call the strategy choice cascade. Roger Martin (00:00:18): You have to have answers to five questions. What's your winning aspiration? Where to play?...
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Low-ego framing
Roger Martin (00:00:18): You have to have answers to five questions. What's your winning aspiration? Where to play? How can you win? What capabilities do you have to...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Roger Martin (01:21:29): You're most welcome. Thank you for making it a fun journey for...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Name the work
before we do that, something I think that's important to talk about is, if your book is called Playing to Win, you talked about this idea of you need to play to win, and you argue that a lot of people...
Names a concrete strength, artifact, or contribution instead of offering generic praise.
Ask with curiosity
Roger Martin (00:48:57): Yeah, yeah. Well, you ask the question, how can we solve... Well, how can we...
Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.
Accept praise cleanly
Roger Martin (01:21:29): You're most welcome. Thank you for making it a fun journey for me.
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.