Creating Great Choices

<p>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.</p><p><ul><li>Long-awaited “how-to” book on integrative thinking, a concept that has grown in popularity and interest since publication of <i>The Opposable Mind</i>.<li>A clear, step-by-step process for integrative decision-making.<li>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.<li>Absorbing and instructive stories and examples from across industries and sectors.<li>As usual with these authors, sharp and engaging writing.</ul></p><p>Audience:<ul><li>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.<li>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.<li>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.</ul><p>