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Author: Roger L. Martin
Publisher: Harvard Business School Publishing
Imprint: Harvard Business School Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.397kg
ISBN: 9781422171646
ISBN 10: 1422171647
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 03 May 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
Named the Best Management Book of 2011 by strategy+business magazine <br> Fixing the Game is a passionate, timely, and incisive look at how today's capitalist system, with its commitment to shareholder value, is leading to bubbles and crashes. He presents some tough-minded solutions. - The Globe and Mail <br> American capitalism hangs in the balance, writes Martin. His book gives a clear explanation as to why this is so and what should be done to save it. - Forbes.com <br> His conclusions have a global relevance - Financial Times <br> recommend Roger Martin's new book, Fixing the Game, which explores the demands of Wall Street vs. the common sense decisions of Main Street...Martin is clear where successful CEOs and their Boards need to focus -- and that's on the actual game on the real field, not the one played by the bookies. - Huffington Post <br> very accessible text with suggestions for reform that will improve both authenticity and the bottom line. - Publishe
<br> Roger Martin has written a book that is at once original, insightful, and inspirational. With his 'tell-it-as-it-is' bluntness, he chronicles the failures of modern-day capitalism and offers clear and realistic policy recommendations for 'fixing the game' and building a better world for investors. If you enjoy wit and seek wisdom, this is the book for you. <br>--John C. Bogle, founder and former chief, The Vanguard Group <br> We've gone from an economy based on making things to one based on making things up. Wall Street has been remodeled as a casino in which the expectations market, reflected in stock prices, has become more important than the real market in which real factories are built, real products are developed and sold, and real dollars show up on the bottom line. Roger Martin offers a riveting account of how the expectations game is beginning to destroy the real game, threatening the future of American capitalism. Through his brilliant analysis of the NFL (which will e
Author Information
Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a professor of strategic management at the school. He authored The Responsibility Virus, The Opposable Mind, The Design of Business and many articles in leading business publications including Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and Barron's.
