Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking

A practical four-step methodology for any leader or manager facing a tough choice, and for creating solutions to big, complex, and pressing problems. Business school curricula teach us that trade-offs are inevitable when it comes to hard choices. Accepting the obvious trade-off isn’t good enough, the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need We can use the models in front of us to create a better answer in those cases. Integrated thinking is what this is. An approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation was first introduced by Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. In Creating Great Choices, Martin and Riel 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 nonprofit executives. The Toronto District School Board, for example, is seeking a replicable, thoughtful approach to creating a third and better way to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade-offs. The new stories in the book will demystify the process of problem solving. The practical four-step methodology can be applied in virtually any context.

Articulating opposing models. The models are being examined. There are possibilities. Evaluating prototypes.

Stimulating and practical, Creating Great Choices blends theory and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

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