Yesterday's approaches to the problems just will not cut it in today's challenging environment, the authors say. The high cost of the decision-making of the future will be characterized by the capacity for integrative thinking. They show that integrative thinking is not acting as an enemy of the traditional disciplines of business, on whose shoulders you can see right into retirement, but rather as a constructive challenge to produce more adaptive reasoning models, more valuable forecasting tools, and a broader approach to interdisciplinary dialogue. A new model of business education, they argue, to recognize the vital role in the integration of modern business, emphasizing the dignity of agile thinking, thinking big and hard thinking "on the seductive trap of narrow perfectionism.
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by Roger Martin, Mihnea C. Moldoveanu Source: Rotman School of Management, 4 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 2007. Prod. #: ROT039-PDF-ENG
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