The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
by Roger L. Martin
from Harvard Business School Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Well-written discussion on integrative thinking
  Great topic. Essentially, Martin argues that leaders need to integrate ideas in order to succeed. Although the author might have conducted considerable research to reach this conclusion, in my opinion much of what is offered in this text really is not ground-breaking material. While Martin does bring some structure to his research by offering numerous examples to support his views along with accompanying models that he has developed, there is not a lot of substance here. It might make sense for the reader... more info

• Opposable Thought
  In other words, playing all sides until a leader gets the result they are looking for. A fantastic book. Very enjoyable and mind bending.

• Poor Model of Thought With No Justification
  This books starts off by presenting the concept of the "integrative thinker", which is a person who has "the predisposition and capacity to hold two diametrically opposing ideas in their heads. And then without panicking or simply settling for one alternative or the other, they're able to produce a synthesis that is superior to either opposing idea"
  If you look closely at this and read the examples in the book of the "opposable mind" in action, you'll begin to notice an assumption that we have no... more info

• Not much added to the newspaper review
  This book highlights that successful people often share the ability to hold two opposing ideas in their mind, and debate them, and then draw conclusions that are often novel. Not a new observation for sure, but interesting to explore. I bought this book after reading a review in the Financial Times (?). Unfortunately having read the book in full I concluded that there was little that was added to the review that stimulated me to buy the book in the first place. There are interesting examples of businesses... more info

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