Rotman's Integrative Thinking™ Program in London

Next Offering: September 20-21, 2012

HOW SUCCESSFUL LEADERS THINK

At Rotman, we are particularly intrigued with how successful leaders react when faced with complex problems that seem to have no right answer.  How do some leaders come up with better, more effective and more innovative solutions than others?

Through years of research, including interviews with more than 50 successful leaders, our Dean, Roger Martin identified a pattern of effective problem solving that can be learned and developed. Rather than looking at what leaders did, he looked at how leaders thought. That way of thinking – which he termed INTEGRATIVE THINKING – enables leaders to tackle the most complicated problems and make better decisions.

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

WHAT IS INTEGRATIVE THINKING?

Integrative Thinking is the ability to constructively face the tensions of opposing models, and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new model that contains elements of the individual models, but is superior to each.

Essentially, Integrative Thinking is the ability to assess and balance conflicting ideas, business models, or strategies to generate new models, new decisions, or new ways of doing things. To learn more watch the short video below: