Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking 01 Edition

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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. Subjects Covered: Corporate vision; Influence; Leadership development; Management philosophy; Management skills; Participative management; Personal strategy & style; Visionary management About The Author Roger Martin (Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award) (Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award) is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is best known for his work on integrative thinking as a means of solving complex problems. He lists his other research interests as business design, corporate social responsibility, and country competitiveness. The author of 12 Harvard Business Review articles, Martin???s best-known book is The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking. In his next book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (2009), Martin suggested that organizations adopt a more design-based approach to thinking. In his most recent book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL (2011), Martin focuses on the state of American capitalism and the effects of coupling the "real" market - designing, making and selling products and services - with the "expectations" market - trading stocks, options and complex derivatives. The economic train crash of 2008 was a direct result.