Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

by Jennifer Riel,‎ Roger L. Martin
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Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking

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.

First introduced by world-renowned strategic thinker Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and his longtime thinking partner Jennifer Riel vividly illustrate how integrative thinking works, and how to do it.

The book includes fresh stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving, as well as practical tools and exercises to help readers engage with the ideas. And it lays out the authors' four-step methodology for creating great choices, which can be applied in virtually any context. The result is a replicable, thoughtful approach to finding a "third and better way" to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade‐offs.

Insightful and instructive, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

打開狄波諾的思考工具箱：從「水平思考」到「六頂思考帽」，有效收割點子的發想技巧 (Serious Creativity)

愛德華．狄波諾 (Edward de Bono)
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「水平思考」、「6頂思考帽」創意大師
愛德華．狄波諾Edward de Bono
——最完整的水平思考工具與應用大全——
 教你不用靈感也能創新！

創造力是可以學習的。
我們不必成為天才，或仰賴無可捉摸的靈感，只要用對方法！

愛德華．狄波諾是當代最重要的思考大師，在思考訓練的推動上不遺餘力。
我們總認為創意是專屬於某些領域的事，總習慣遇到問題才來想辦法解決；
但狄波諾告訴我們：
每個人都可以養成創意思考的態度，在沒問題中找問題，在一切順利時進行改善。
只要掌握好方法，你就可以在邏輯和分析思考之外，另闢一條創意思考的思路。

本書囊括水平思考法最重要的工具與技巧，
幫助你掌握「六頂思考帽」、「隨機輸入法」、「概念扇」等思考工具，以及在組織中的應用方法。
從發想到收割創意，讓你和你的團隊展現真正有效率和效益的創造力！

六頂思考帽──戴上不同顏色的帽子，一次只用一種角度看事情，得以避免爭辯，更有效地討論問題！
創造性暫停──打斷例行思考的流暢運轉，才能注意到被疏忽的事物！
聚焦──聚焦在一些沒有人願意思考的問題上，即使是小創意，也能產生驚人成果！
質疑──拒絕接受現行做法必然是最佳做法，繼續尋找可行的替代方案！
刺激──藉由設定腳踏石，扭轉現行的方式思考，找出真正的新做法！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Swimming in Hong Kong

Stephanie Han
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Stephanie Han’s award-winning stories cross the borders and boundaries of Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. This is an intimate look at those who dare to explore the geography of hope and love, struggle with dreams of longing and home, and wander in the myths of memory and desire.

Stephanie Han’s Swimming in Hong Kong was the finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction as well as the Spokane Prize. She is City University of Hong Kong’s first English literature PhD.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

思考的藝術：52 個非受迫性思考錯誤 (The Art of Thinking Clearly)

魯爾夫．杜伯里 (Rolf Dobelli)
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我們經常會「直覺地、無意識地」做出決定，事後再補上一些看似合理的選擇理由。如果拿律師跟科學家來比喻，我們的思考模式比較傾向律師，因為律師都很會先射箭再畫靶。

我們很容易掉入思考的陷阱裡，產生偏差、謬誤、幻覺、錯誤……

杜伯里帶著放大鏡，幫助我們一一檢視這些常見的思考陷阱，並告訴我們為何該藐視權威、別跟模特兒做好朋友、別以實報實銷的方式付錢給律師、別參加什麼拍賣會或競標案、別說你在婚姻裡付出比較多……

作者以清晰易讀的語調，逐篇舉出52個人人易犯的思考錯誤，並佐以生活趣事、名人軼事、歷史、愛情關係、投資理財、實驗研究等內容，具體說明錯誤何在、何以會犯。此外，針對各項錯誤，作者一一提出解決之道，讓讀者不易掉入思考陷阱之中。同時，每篇均搭配一幅與主題相關的諧趣插畫，讓本書不僅具實用性，更具可看性。

不論是日常生活、學習、工作經營、投資理財或愛情關係上的大小事，本書指摘的52個思考錯誤，將讓你明白自身的弱點何在，並且更勇敢地與自己的非理性對抗，不再只靠直覺決定一切！

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iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

Jean M. Twenge
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A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.

With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to.

As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: Friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

快思慢想 (Thinking, Fast and Slow)

康納曼 (Daniel Kahneman)
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如果一年只能讀一本書，你絕對不能錯過《快思慢想》！

「快思」與「慢想」是我們腦中的兩位主角。它們大部分時候是朋友，有時是敵人，更常一起並肩打仗！

我們何時要相信直覺？何時要對抗直覺與偏見，召喚所有理性出來打仗？我們總以為能駕馭自己的思考，事實上，人們的行為常常受到未知因素所影響。我們對思考的機制充滿假設與誤解，又很依賴直覺的感知和記憶，常常做出因個人偏見導致的錯誤決策。

如果你希望自己更聰明、更冷靜，就要學會掌握「快思」與「慢想」的遊戲規則。

康納曼介紹了很多有趣的經典行為實驗，披露思考的捷徑、替代、偏好、框架、錨點等效應。不僅讓我們對大腦的複雜與非理性恍然大悟，也指出我們在什麼情況下該相信靈光乍現，什麼時候該三思而行，該運用哪些技巧來避免常常使我們陷入麻煩的思考偏誤，以及如何在商場、職場和個人生活中做出更好的選擇。

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