TY  - GEN
AU  - Martin, Roger
TI  - The opposable mind: how successful leaders win through integrative thinking
SN  - 9781422118924
U1  - 658.4092 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Harvard Business School Press
KW  - Leadership - Psychological aspects
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Contradiction
KW  - Problem solving
KW  - Decision making
N2  - 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,  youll 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 thinkingcreatively 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 and 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 questionsincluding 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 knowledgeincluding conceptual and experiential knowledge. Integrative thinking can be learned,  and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill
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