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leadership, and inspiration, for free. The Opposable Mind
Published by Harvard Business Press Think of a Rubik’s cube.
Those who can complete one (i.e. put all the coloured tiles
where they belong) will tell you that one of the keys to
accomplishment is keeping all the other tiles in mind while
focusing on completing a certain placement. It’s not simply a
matter of completing one side to the exclusion of the others,
but rather the process of building one side while maintaining or
building the others as well. Author/professor Roger Martin
explains this process to be “integrative thinking”; the ability
to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and,
instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a
creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea
that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to
each. Silly example? Maybe. And yet people fall back onto
“either-or” choices all the time. Consider the story