Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1633692965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has published articles in the Globe and Mail, Businessweek, Strategy Magazine, and Rotman Magazine, as well on online at the Huffington Post, Fortune, and the Daily Beast. He is the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. He has published many articles in Harvard Business Review and other leading publications, as well as nine boo
Jennifer is also a strategic advisor to senior leaders at a number of Fortune 500 companies. She is coauthor, with Roger Martin and AG Lafley, of the Playing to Win Toolkit (HBR Press).Roger Martin is an author, a business school professor, and a strategy advisor to CEOs. About the AuthorJennifer Riel is an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, teaching strategy, innovation, and integrative thinking. He is the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivi
In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and better answer. Conventional wisdomand business school curriculateaches us that making trade-offs is inevitable when it comes to hard choices. But sometimes, accepting the obvious trade-off just isn’t good enough: the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need. Integrative thinking has been embraced by organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Deloitte, Verizon, and the Toronto District School Boardall seeking a replicable, thoughtful approach to creating a “third and better way” to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade-offs.The book includes new stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving. This is integrative thinking.First introduced by Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and fellow Rotman expert Jennifer Riel vividly show how they have refined and enhanced the understanding and practice of integrative thinking through their work teaching the concept and its principles to business and non