Transcending Either-Or Decision Making

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🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to solve problems: integrative thinking. It’s taking the best from two inadequate options to come up with a successful solution. She gives examples from the film industry to show how CEOs have put the process to work. Riel is the co-author, along with Roger Martin, of the book “Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking.”

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0:00.0	The Closer Podcast brings you the inside story of deals changing the world, told by the people who know how it all went down.
0:09.0	Understand the human motivations behind groundbreaking business decisions with host Amy Keene.
0:14.6	Listen to The Closer, in for Sarah Greer. the HBO idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Kurt Nickish in for Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:36.0	If you don't know that music, it's the theme song from the LEGO movie.
0:46.7	The animated film grossed nearly a half billion dollars in 2014 and it also breathed new life
0:52.2	into the brand.
0:54.0	People loved seeing the little plastic pieces of their childhood in action.
0:58.4	The hero, Emmett, falls down a hole one day,
1:01.7	into the LEGO underground.
1:03.4	The prophecy states that you're the most important person in the universe.
1:07.6	That's you, right?
1:08.6	Uh...
1:09.6	Yes, that's me. Behind the scenes, the LEGO Group went through its own adventure.
1:16.0	Turns out there's a strategic decision-making story behind the blockbuster,
1:20.0	and it's a case that Jennifer Rial and her co-author
1:23.0	Roger Martin study in their new book,
1:25.5	Creating Great Choices, a Leaders Guide to Integrative Thinking.
1:29.5	Rial teaches at the University of Toronto's
1:31.7	Rotman School of Management,
1:33.5	she also loves movies.
1:35.3	So today she's here to talk about integrative thinking
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