“Creating Great Choices is the rarest of business books that teaches decision makers how to think, not what to think. I found it superb and wholly original.” — Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author, The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers; staff writer, The New Yorker

When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn’t good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need? In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and superior answer. This is integrative thinking. In Creating Great Choices, Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel vividly illustrate how integrative thinking works, and how to do it.

Buy Now

FEATURED PRODUCT

Competing on Analytics, Updated Edition

By Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris

The landmark book that first introduced business leaders to analytics as a strategic capability is now updated with fresh content and new examples. Competing on Analytics reveals how analytics are rewriting the rules of competition and provides a road map for how to create new strategies based on sophisticated analytics. Through the lens of a five-stage model authors Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris describe how companies like Google, UPS, and Disney are using analytics to transform their organizations from marketing and HR to operations and R&D. With equal emphasis on human and technological resources, this book reveals how even the most highly analytical companies can up their game.

Buy Now