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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 211 with Jennifer Rial.

Jennifer is sharing how you don't have to put up with unacceptable trade-offs when you're making a really tough choice, but rather you can

create additional great choices. So you learn one, why you should fall in love with

opposing approaches to solving a problem. Two, how to hold two approaches intention

to help generate optimal solutions,

and three, the three questions to ask

for creating better answers.

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Now, here's Jennifer's story.

Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management University of Toronto,

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