🌿🧭🌳 OD96: Map of 100+ business strategy articles by Roger Martin

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Roger Martin is one of the most prolific and popular authors that are writing on the topic of Business Strategy.

• He has written 8 books about Strategy and Design;

• His HBR video ”A Plan Is Not a Strategy” got to 1.8M views;

• and he’s been publishing over 100 Medium articles weekly, with practitioner insights about various facets of business strategy and interrelated topics.

Since there are lots of useful insights and practices in this generous series of articles, we’ve created a map you can use to explore all this content, based on specific topics that might currently interest you.

The map is a project that took 2 months to complete in the midst of all the other work. We’ve read all the articles, try to make sense of them and connect them to specific topics like strategy practices, testing strategy, strategy mindsets & skills etc.

As a sneak preview, here’s an example of a strategy Roger shares in an article about compelling communication of the business strategy:

Copyright: Roger L. Martin, 2021

And here’s for example the set of articles we’ve mapped under the combined topic of Coordinating, Knitting, Cascading, Aggregating, Chartering Strategy:

• Understanding the True Building Blocks of Corporate Strategy

• The Secret to Knitting Strategy Together Corporate-Wide

• Are You Building a Strategy Tower of Babel?

• Decoding the Strategy Choice Cascade

• Strategic Choice Chartering

• Corporate vs. Business Unit Strategy

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Browse the map here and hope you enjoy it!

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