THE OPPOSABLE MIND WINNING THROUGHT INTEGRATIVE THINKING

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781422139776
año:2010
autor: Roger Martin

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.
About the authors

# Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a
professor of strategic management at Rotman. Formerly, he was a director of Monitor Company
, a global strategy consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has authored numerous
articles for leading business publications including Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Barron?s,
and Fast Company.