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When More Is Not Better Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency

When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency

By Roger L Martin

Strategy guru and world-renowned business thinker Roger Martin starkly outlines why our American system of democratic capitalism is in danger--because it has long been viewed as a kind of "perfectible machine" of economic efficiency. We need to shift to treating it as a complex adaptive system, balancing efficiency with resilience.

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Book Information

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publish Date: 09/29/2020
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781647820060
ISBN-10: 1647820065
Language: Eng

What We're Saying

December 17, 2020

We will be announcing the overall winner of the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards on January 14. Until then, we thought we'd take a look back at the rest of the books on the list. Today, we have the runners up in the Leadership & Strategy category, and a look inside the book we chose as the best among them. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 17, 2020

Ranging from the nature of work and creativity to the foundations that our communities, business models, and economics are built upon, each of these books resonates strongly with 2020, a year like none other. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 03, 2020

These are the 40 books we found represent the year best in one way or another. They help us make sense of the challenges 2020 has presented us with, understand the depths of the existing cracks it has exposed in our society, and offer solutions to solve the many truly monumental challenges we face—together. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

October 09, 2020

In his latest book, Roger Martin warns us that, "In the case of American democratic capitalism, the proxies that we have adopted for measuring and driving efficiency are turning our pursuit of efficiency into a destructive force." READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Strategy guru and world-renowned business thinker Roger Martin starkly outlines why our American system of democratic capitalism is in danger--because it has long been viewed as a kind of "perfectible machine" of economic efficiency. We need to shift to treating it as a complex adaptive system, balancing efficiency with resilience. This book shows how.

  • A provocative big-picture argument from a leading business thinker.
  • Timely--there is currently hot debate about the future of capitalism.
  • An engaging, impressive synthesis of business, economic, and political thinking and context.
  • Compact, essayistic, and well-written.

Audience: Business leaders, thoughtful senior executives and managers, policy wonks, intelligent general readers interested in the economy, political economy, and the future of capitalism.

About the Author

Roger L. Martin is Professor of Strategic Management, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, where he also served as Dean (1998-2013).

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