The authors argue that today's leaders suffer from a common logical error: they tend to see what they want and do not ask difficult questions that could lead in other directions. As a result, they become a victim of its own thinking - ready mashed together "competing logics without giving it a second thought. Facility, they say, to dig deeper into the logic of the opposing elections to test their assumptions, and clearly trying to understand how the conditions and consequences associated each other. They explain how integrative thinkers explicitly use the tension between opposing ideas to create new and better solutions. "Hide
by Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel Source: Rotman School of Management, 5 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2011 year. Prod. #: ROT125-PDF-ENG
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