Creating Great Choices

A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

By: Jennifer Riel, Roger L. Martin

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

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

Stimulating and practical, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

©2017 Jennifer Riel and Roger L. Martin (P)2017 Recorded Books

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.

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.

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)

Very average and full of common sense stuff

Waste of time to be honest. Although the description of the book sounds great in reality its really full of common sense stuff cliches and general bla bla.