So we have to do the heavy lifting and sort through competing and conflicting sources ourselves. That requires graduating from simple, binary, either/or thinking toward both/and/neither thinking. Not only does this require an unusually high tolerance for ambiguity, it requires cultivating what Roger Martin, the dean of the Rotman School of Management, calls an “opposable mind” that can stay above the fray. That requires practice. And time. Neither of which we feel like we’ve got enough of.
