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 integrative solutions to big, complex and pressing problems. Long-awaited "how-to" book on integrative thinking, a concept that has grown in popularity and interest since publication of The Opposable Mind.A clear, step-by-step process for integrative decision-making.Based on the authors' teaching of the concept and process for years at Rotman, and on their ongoing research and application in all kinds of companies.Absorbing and instructive stories and examples from across industries and sectors.As usual with these authors, sharp and engaging writing. Audience: Managers across all fields. Every manager needs to make choices, every day, whether he/she is in a business, a non-profit, or a government organization. A primer on a process for tackling their most difficult problems in a new, creative way-alone and with their teams-will help make those choices more effective, more of the time.Consultants/advisors. Consultants face the challenge of untenable trade-offs with their clients all the time. This book will be a handbook for them, providing a methodology to use in those critical moments, helping them navigate the interpersonal and organizations challenges that regularly arise in their work.Educators and their students. Any course in design thinking, innovation, even strategy, could use this book as a secondary text-as a process that offers a new way into old problems. The book would be as applicable for classes in business, healthcare, education and government/political science.