Effective Leaders' Work

In search of lessons to [blank] in our own careers, we often try to [blank] what effective leaders do. Roger Martin says this focus is misplaced because moves that work in one context may make little sense in another. A more productive, though more difficult, the approach is to look at how such leaders [blank] . After extensive interviews with more than 50 of them, the author [blank] that most are integrative thinkers -that is, they can hold in their heads two opposing ideas at once and then come up with a new idea that contains elements of [blank] but is superior to both.