Creating Great Choices
A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
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A practical four-step methodology for any leader or manager facing a tough choice, and for creating integrative solutions to big, complex, and pressing problems. Conventional wisdom - and business school curricula - teaches us that making trade-offs is inevitable when it comes to hard choices. But sometimes, accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough: the choices in front of us don't get us what we need. In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and better answer. This is integrative thinking. First introduced by Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and fellow Rotman expert Jennifer Riel vividly 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, MBA students, even kids. Integrative thinking has been embraced by organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Deloitte, Verizon, and the Toronto District School Board - all seeking a replicable, thoughtful approach to creating a "third and better way" to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade-offs. The book includes new stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving. It lays out the authors' practical four-step methodology, which can be applied in virtually any context:
- Articulating opposing models
- Examining the models
- Generating possibilities
- Assessing prototypes
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You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.
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Basic design thinking lesson
- By Preston on 04-09-16
By: Florian Heuer
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The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions
- Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level, 3rd Edition
- By: Timothy J. Galpin, Mark Herndon
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Merger and acquisition activity across the globe continues to grow, and is also playing a major role in the development of expanding markets. A well-managed integration effort is essential to success, and failure means a tremendous waste in terms of time and money, as well as the rapid destruction of shareholder value. The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level, Third Edition is an invaluable resource to guide firms in managing M&A integration and maximize the value of their deals.
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Sales brochure for the authors
- By J Garner on 04-18-22
By: Timothy J. Galpin, and others
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The High-Potential Leader
- How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact
- By: Ram Charan, Geri Willigan
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Companies need high potential leaders (Hi-Pos) more than ever before to help them adapt to today's tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand - and this book explains how to fast-track yourself.
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Good book for people wanting to climb the corporate ladder and for executives to accelerate high - potential leaders
- By Niel on 06-23-19
By: Ram Charan, and others
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Little Bets
- How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
- By: Peter Sims
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Best-selling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas.
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Useful approach, not for everyone
- By Tad Davis on 08-15-11
By: Peter Sims
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Clarity First
- How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
- By: Karen Martin
- Narrated by: Karen Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of clarity strangles business performance and erodes employee engagement. Ambiguity is the corporate default state, a condition so prevalent that “tolerance for ambiguity” has become a clichéd job requirement. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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- By sharing1 on 10-11-19
By: Karen Martin
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Extreme Teams
- Why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
- By: Robert Bruce Shaw
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently: hiring the right person instead of the best person; focusing on one priority while leaving room to explore new ideas; creating an environment where people are comfortable dealing with the uncomfortable.
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Extreme Blah
- By Blair C on 05-03-18
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The Strategist
- Be the Leader Your Business Needs
- By: Cynthia Montgomery
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Based on an acclaimed professor's legendary strategy course at Harvard Business School, The Strategist offers a radically new perspective on a leader's most vital role. "Are you a strategist?" That's the first question Cynthia Montgomery asks the business owners and senior executives from all over the world who participate in her highly regarded executive education course. It's not a question they anticipate, but by the time the program ends, they cannot imagine leading their companies to success without being - and living the role of - a strategist.
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Slow going with an odd narrative tone
- By Benson Bumpkin on 08-06-12
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Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fifth Edition
- By: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change.
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Terrible listening experience
- By Ashley on 01-26-19
By: Edgar H. Schein, and others
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Glimmer
- How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World
- By: Warren Berger
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The first book to reveal how thinking like a designer can help solve the greatest challenges we face in business, society, and our daily lives. What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our world? In this highly original book by journalist Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, ten groundbreaking principles of design are shown in action-addressing business, social, and personal challenges and improving the way we think, work, and live.
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not for those who know about design thinking...
- By Pierre on 09-06-10
By: Warren Berger
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Attacker's Advantage
- Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
- By: Ram Charan
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous best sellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level.
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Fantastic book - volume lower than usual
- By James Gajewski on 06-14-15
By: Ram Charan
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The Self-Made Billionaire Effect
- How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
- By: John Sviokla, Mitch Cohen
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first massmarket personal computer. Or what Steve Case might have done for PepsiCo if he hadn't left for a gaming start-up that eventually became AOL. What if Salomon Brothers had kept Michael Bloomberg, or Bear Stearns had exploited the inventive ideas of Stephen Ross? Scores of top-tier entrepreneurs worked for established corporations before they struck out on their own and became self-made billionaires.
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Waste of time!
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-20
By: John Sviokla, and others
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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick
- People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds
- By: Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, Sven Smit
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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To make these big moves happen for your company, you’re going to have to break through inertia, gamesmanship, and risk aversion. You’re going to have to mitigate human biases and manage group dynamics. Eight practical shifts can help you do this, and unlock bigger, bolder, better strategies. This is not another by-the-book approach to strategy. It’s not another trudge through frameworks or small-scale case studies promising a secret formula for success. It’s an irreverent, fact-driven, and humorous take on the real world of strategic decision making.
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Ok beginning, superb finish
- By Rancher on 01-01-21
By: Chris Bradley, and others
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- Rurik McKaiser
- 02-22-24
Excellent and very helpful
This is such a wonderful practical work of art. This book is a practitioner's best friend AND at the same time a useful tools for progressive and forward thinking parents.
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- JULIO
- 07-20-21
Design Thinker Pro's cannot do without this book!
Design thinkers! This a fundamental tool for your toolbox. It is written with one of the best balance of concepts, tools and cases I have come about. Buy with confidence and keep always close to you! (It would have been perfect If it would have had come with an accompanying PDF)
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-24-23
A guide to integrative thinking
Most of Leaders we are struggling to recruit great people. When they join the team we unfortunately limiting their participation, censure their creativity and not listening them as we should. This book bring solutions to implement integrative thinking and give back to our team players the role of contributors we hired them for. Excellent reading very well documented.
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