{"product_id":"the-opposable-mind-9781422118924","title":"The Opposable Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Opposable Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls \u003cb\u003eintegrative thinking,\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u0026amp; 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Martin makes a compelling argument for a paradoxical approach to problem-solving.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusinessWeek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...compelling...the thesis that fresh thought processes are required to deal with the world s contradictions and complexities rings true.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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","brand":"Harvard Business Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867011035479,"sku":"9781422118924","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781422118924.jpg?v=1722281285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-opposable-mind-9781422118924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}