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Book SynopsisIf you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger. By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you''ll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different.
Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking, creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing
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"Martin makes a compelling argument for a paradoxical approach to problem-solving." —BusinessWeek,
"...compelling...the thesis that fresh thought processes are required to deal with the world s contradictions and complexities rings true." — The Financial Times
Table of ContentsChapter One - Choices, Conflict, and the Creative Spark: The Problem-Solving Power of Integrative Thinking Chapter Two - No Stomach for Second-Best: How Integrative Thinkers Move Beyond Trade-offs Chapter Three - Reality, Resistance, and Resolution: How Integrative Thinkers Keep Their Options Open Chapter Four - Dancing Through Complexity: Shaping Resolutions by Resisting Simplification Chapter Five - Mapping the Mind: How Thought Circulates Chapter Six - The Construction Project: Imagining Reality Chapter Seven - A Leap of the Mind: How Integrative Thinkers Connect the Dots Chapter Eight - A Wealth of Experience: Using the Past, Inventing the Future
