--- product_id: 12694473 title: "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking" price: "¥5613" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12694473-the-opposable-mind-how-successful-leaders-win-through-integrative-thinking store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Proven leadership frameworks Integrative thinking mastery Cognitive skill development The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking **Price:** ¥5613 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🧩 Unlock the mindset that turns dilemmas into game-changing opportunities! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking - **How much does it cost?** ¥5613 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12694473-the-opposable-mind-how-successful-leaders-win-through-integrative-thinking) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Boost Your Decision-Making IQ:** Sharpen your ability to analyze complex problems and create superior alternatives. - • **Real-World Leadership Insights:** Draw inspiration from stories of iconic CEOs like Jack Welch and Meg Whitman. - • **Transform Your Thinking Habits:** Develop intellectual agility by objectively optimizing your own thought processes. - • **Master the Art of Integrative Thinking:** Learn how top leaders synthesize opposing ideas into breakthrough solutions. - • **Join a Community of Forward-Thinking Professionals:** Elevate your leadership game with a book ranked top 600 in Business Motivation. ## Overview The Opposable Mind by Roger Martin is a highly regarded business book that teaches integrative thinking — the skill of creatively resolving tensions between opposing ideas to generate superior solutions. Drawing on examples from renowned leaders, it offers a practical model to enhance cognitive agility and decision-making. This used copy is in good condition and has earned a strong 4.3-star rating from over 300 readers, making it a must-read for ambitious professionals aiming to elevate their leadership impact. ## Description 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. Review: Intelectually Invigorating - I strongly recommend this book as a tool for sharpening one's ability to create value. Martin's model (with examples) for: 1) never accepting existing solutions as permanent, 2) notice a wider rage of desirable benefits as being mandatory to include in the ideal solution, 3) have the temerity to face any complexity in creating a new alternative superior to existent alternatives (to include more of the salient benefits, to resolve more of the previous constraints). A sample: "... integrative thinkers don't take the easy way out and pick the least-worst alternative; they view the creation of a truly attractive option as both their goal and their personal responsibility. They learn from each option without being bound by its limitations, and they use the insights gained to break through to an entirely new model that creatively resolves the tensions between existing models." I also loved his discussion of how one's intellectual "stance" is under one's control and that one can objectively analyze one's own thinking structure/capacity and optimize it. Martin points out that most people rarely analyze their own approach to thinking. Since thought is the antecedent to action, thinking about how to sharpen your thinking (which this book helps you do) will lead to more effective action. Review: The opposable mind and conceptual agility - I bought this as required reading for a certificate course in Non Executive Directorship which I am currently working on.I was amused therefore to discover that my tutor has not read it. If you are a clinical psychologist and/or a business man you will find it easy going. If not then the psycho babble and jargon require that you concentrate pretty hard at times. The examples used from the business world are very illuminating ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #407,115 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #510 in Business Decision Making #529 in Decision-Making & Problem Solving #1,160 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 304 Reviews | ## Images ![The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nKI43YDAL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Intelectually Invigorating *by C***E on October 24, 2010* I strongly recommend this book as a tool for sharpening one's ability to create value. Martin's model (with examples) for: 1) never accepting existing solutions as permanent, 2) notice a wider rage of desirable benefits as being mandatory to include in the ideal solution, 3) have the temerity to face any complexity in creating a new alternative superior to existent alternatives (to include more of the salient benefits, to resolve more of the previous constraints). A sample: "... integrative thinkers don't take the easy way out and pick the least-worst alternative; they view the creation of a truly attractive option as both their goal and their personal responsibility. They learn from each option without being bound by its limitations, and they use the insights gained to break through to an entirely new model that creatively resolves the tensions between existing models." I also loved his discussion of how one's intellectual "stance" is under one's control and that one can objectively analyze one's own thinking structure/capacity and optimize it. Martin points out that most people rarely analyze their own approach to thinking. Since thought is the antecedent to action, thinking about how to sharpen your thinking (which this book helps you do) will lead to more effective action. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The opposable mind and conceptual agility *by D***E on January 12, 2013* I bought this as required reading for a certificate course in Non Executive Directorship which I am currently working on.I was amused therefore to discover that my tutor has not read it. If you are a clinical psychologist and/or a business man you will find it easy going. If not then the psycho babble and jargon require that you concentrate pretty hard at times. The examples used from the business world are very illuminating ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beyond Binary Choices - Learning from the Best Leaders *by A***E on April 4, 2009* Some of my best experiences in reading books have occurred when someone I trust and respect has said to me: "You need to read this book!" That is how I discovered the marvelous insights that Roger Martin shares in his book, "The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking." One day over lunch, my friend, Rick Cerf, showed me the book and told me that I needed to add it to my reading list. Thanks, Rick! Martin, who is Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, offers as his major premise the idea that the best leaders avoid simplistic binary choices, and put in the extra effort to find solutions to complex problems - solutions that go beyond false dichotomies. The best leaders think in terms of "Both/And" rather than "Either/Or." "As I listened to some of the sharpest minds in business talk about how they thought through the most pressing and perplexing dilemmas of their careers, I searched for a metaphor that could give me deeper insight into the dynamic of their thinking. The skill with which these thinkers held two opposing ideas in fruitful tension reminded me of the way other highly skilled people use their hands. Human beings, it's well known, are distinguished from nearly every other creature by a physical feature known as the opposable thumb. Thanks to the tension we create by opposing the thumb and fingers, we can do marvelous things that no other creature can do - write, thread a needle, carve a diamond, paint a picture, guide a catheter up through an artery to unblock it. All those actions would be impossible without the crucial tension between the thumb and the fingers. . . Similarly, we were born with an opposable mind we can use to hold two conflicting ideas in constructive tension." (Pages 6-7) The language that Martin chooses here is very instructive, and is reminiscent of language I remember being used by one of my favorite graduate school professors - Dr. Gordon Fee. Dr. Fee, one of the translators of the New International Version of the Bible, is a brilliant biblical scholar and communicator. He would often describe difficult portions of Scripture that, on the surface, may appear to contradict each other, and he would declaim: "We hold these truths in tension!" As an example of "opposable mind thinking," Martin offers the legendary choreographer, Martha Graham: "Like Graham, the creative thinkers I interviewed knew they would need plenty of help to reach creative resolutions. They chose their collaboration expressly for what they would contribute to an integrated whole. Bruce Mau, a renowned designer and frequent collaborator with architect Frank Gehry, told me, 'You can't make a renaissance person any more, because the range of what you would need to do is just impossible. But you could actually assemble a renaissance team.' The integrative thinkers rely on their 'renaissance teams' to broaden salience, maintain sophisticated causality, and create a holistic architecture in their drive for creative resolution." (Page 82) Throughout the book, Martin lays out principle for integrative thinking and fleshes out those principles using real world examples: "Nandan Nilekani, the builder and CEO of what is perhaps India's most successful global IT powerhouse, Infosys Technologies Limited, says that when he's confronted with two fundamentally opposed sets of requirements, his first inclination is to ask, 'Are there solutions that satisfy both?' And when asked whether he thought strategy or execution was more important, Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, responded, 'I don't think it's an either-or.'" (Page 114) Since Rick turned me on to this book and its treasure chest of ideas, I have had occasion to share those ideas with quite a few individuals. In several cases, they called me back a day or two later to thank me for the insights, and to tell me that they had ordered their own copy of the book. In the interest of "paying forward" the gift that Rick Cerf gave me of a marvelous suggestion that I read this book, I recommend that you procure a copy of "The Opposable Mind." Enjoy! 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