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A Triumph. Few management books have ever brought such psychological insight to the question of why good people often struggle in positions of leadership. -Malcolm Gladwell, author of "The Tipping Point"... अधिक

There are two schools of thought when it comes to value creation. One holds that the path to value creation lies in driving out the old-fashioned practice of gut instincts and replacing it with strategy based on rigorous, quantitative analysis. The other favors creativity and innovation. To the prop... अधिक

Business leaders place an enormous amount of value and spend a lot of money on innovation. But in all too many cases, businesses unwittingly work against their own purposes by falling pray to cultures and routines that privilege analysis over intuition and mastery over originality. They rely increas... अधिक

Designers tend to actively look for new data points, challenge prevailing wisdom, and wonder about possible new worlds. However, to many middle managers, asking them to think like a designer is tantamount to asking them to be less productive and more subversive and flaky. For many leaders, the risk ... अधिक

Design-thinking organizations remain a small minority in the corporate world, and on the whole are relatively small themselves. Bankers want to see budget projections and proof that they will be met, boards reject initiatives that can't be proved prior to experience, and shareholders demand that the... अधिक

Actual dialogue about new ideas at the senior level of most organizations is exceedingly rare. Rather than engaging in dialogue, executives devote their time and energy to bulletproofing arguments with airtight evidence and analysis and then advocating and defending them. Such was the case at Procte... अधिक

How can the circus be updated for today's more sophisticated tastes? This was the question that Guy Lalibert , founder of Cirque du Soleil, asked himself. The answer was a show that after 25 years is still innovating its format and delighting its audiences around the world to the tune of $600 milli... अधिक

The CEO is not the only one in the organization who should be a design thinker. In fact, if the CEO and other senior managers in your organization are resistant to design-thinking principles and nurture a culture that is hostile to innovation in favor of maintaining the status quo, it may be up to y... अधिक

This chapter describes the process of integrative thinking, providing examples from the world of business and beyond, to illustrate the capacities and skills that people must develop to practice integrative thinking.... अधिक

What sets integrative thinkers apart? This chapter explores integrative thinking by breaking this thinking process down into its constituent parts.... अधिक

This chapter illustrates how some business leaders have explored the tensions between opposing models of reality, and found creative solutions that go beyond trade-offs.... अधिक

This chapter identifies how the twin forces of simplification and specialization-hallmarks of modern life and business-discourage integrative thinking, and describes how these forces can be countered.... अधिक

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This chapter reviews the six essential elements for developing an integrative thinking stance about the world and about yourself-the foundation of your personal knowledge system, and the key to learning how to fashion creative resolutions from opposing ideas.... अधिक

This chapter reviews three powerful tools for improving your integrative thinking capacity, offering aspiring integrative thinkers a few lessons from the work of Taddy Blecher, cofounder of CIDA City Campus, an innovative South African university.... अधिक

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American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it's getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we've seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a strin... अधिक

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 part... अधिक