The Opposable Mind Quotes

“If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren’t thinking about.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“simplification, 80–20 style, leads to more business as usual.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“The Chinese character for “crisis,” he pointed out to me, combines the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“You can’t make a renaissance person anymore, because the range of what you would need to do is just impossible. But you could actually assemble a renaissance team.”7 The integrative thinkers rely on their “renaissance teams” to broaden salience, maintain sophisticated causality, and create a holistic architecture in their drive for creative resolution.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“Fundamentally, the conventional thinker prefers to accept the world as it is. The integrative thinker welcomes the challenge of shaping the world for the better.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“The Problem-Solving Power                of Integrative Thinking The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.1 —F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
― Roger L. Martin, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking