Roger L. Martin

The Opposable Mind (eBook, ePUB)

How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If 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 questions including: What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs?

Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual and experiential knowledge.

Integrative thinking can be learned, and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Business Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781422148105
• Artikelnr.: 38293579

Autorenporträt

Roger Martin is an author, business school professor, and strategy adviser to CEOs. He is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, where he served as Dean from 1998 to 2013. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading publications and has published nine books, including Playing to Win, The Opposable Mind, and Creating Great Choices.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 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

Rezensionen

"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