Flawed Models Driving Back-to-Office Plans

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🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Do you own your models or do your models own you? That’s one of the driving questions in Roger Martin’s new book, “A New Way To Think: Your Guide To Superior Management Effectiveness.” The former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Martin has also been a strategic advisor to Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor, and Lego. Motley Fool contributor Rachel Warren talked with him about:
- The flawed models driving back-to-office plans
- Why stock-based compensation doesn’t necessarily help outside investors
- When corporate mergers can succeed and why they often destroy value

Stocks discussed: T, ZM, CSCO, AAPL

Host: Rachel Warren
Guest: Roger Martin
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Michael Schweitzer

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0:00.0	So, it's the model of their loyal and an ignoring of the model that says habit drives behavior
0:11.8	that is getting all these companies in trouble.
0:14.7	And the great resignation is real.
0:16.8	I think we haven't seen the worst of it yet.
0:19.6	That's going to ripple through the economy.
0:21.4	And it's because the companies are now getting more strident about you must come back to
0:25.7	work.
0:26.7	It's all based on a flawed model of human behavior.
0:31.5	I'm Chris Hill and that's Roger Martin.
0:37.0	Author of the new book, A New Way to Think, Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness.
0:43.3	Martin has served as the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
0:47.6	He's also worked as a strategic advisor for Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor and Lego.
0:53.7	Motley Fool contributor Rachel Warren talked with him about key takeaways from his book
0:58.3	and how to reframe the flawed models which can hurt businesses and shareholders.
1:11.0	First off, let's just dive right in and talk about your new book, A New Way to Think,
1:15.0	Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness.
1:17.2	Tell our audience what's the book about, what was the journey to writing this book and
1:22.1	what are some of the dominant themes of the book?
1:24.5	Sure.
1:25.5	Well, the book is about our use of models.
1:27.9	So when we make any kind of management decision, we have some way of thinking about it.
1:32.7	Call it a model.
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