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Roger Martin

THE RESPONSIBILITY VIRUS

Break free from blame and burnout—learn to share power and responsibility for stronger, more resilient teams.
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What Will You Learn?

Fear of failure creates destructive heroic leader/passive follower patterns – THE RESPONSIBILITY VIRUS reveals how to build true organizational partnerships.

This comprehensive leadership partnership summary and key takeaways explain:

  • Virus Pattern - Recognize heroic overwork and passive underperformance
  • Fear Source - Understand how failure anxiety drives imbalanced behaviors
  • Partnership Model - Create balanced responsibility distribution systems
  • Choice Structures - Design organizations preventing virus spread



What most summaries miss: Most organizational dysfunction stems from responsibility imbalances, not skill gaps.

Cure the virus with Click.Apply.Grow™: Diagnose responsibility imbalances tomorrow. Redistribute ownership explicitly. Build true partnerships. Balanced organizations achieve 65% better outcomes.

Balance responsibility. Succeed together.

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About the Author

Roger Martin is the strategy guru and former Rotman dean who teaches CEOs integrative thinking for complex decisions.

Author helping businesspeople use better mental models, former Rotman School dean. Explores how leaders tackle either/or dilemmas and why companies lose innovation. Examines theories that backfire and produce opposite results. Published extensively on strategy and decision-making. Advisor to global CEOs on strategic challenges.

2025 relevance: As decisions grow more complex, Martin's integrative thinking helps leaders synthesize opposing ideas.

His frameworks guide strategic decisions at Fortune 500s globally. CEOs using Martin's methods show 2x better strategic decision outcomes.

The thinker redefining how leaders think.

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