211: Creating Great Choices to Resolve Tough Questions with Jennifer Riel

Jennifer Riel illustrates how successful thinkers can create great choices rather than tolerate unacceptable trade-offs via her practical methodology for implementing integrated thinking.

You’ll Learn:

1) Why you should fall in love with opposing approaches to solving a problem

2) How to hold two approaches in tension to discover optimal solutions

3) The three questions to creating better answers

About Jennifer

Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time. 

An award-winning teacher, Jennifer leads training on integrative thinking, strategy and innovation, both at the Rotman School and at organizations of all types, from small non-profits to some of the largest companies in the world.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

• Sponsor: TextExpander, the productivity multiplier
• Book: Creating Great Choices by Jennifer Riel & Roger L. Martin
• Book: The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them – And They Shape Us by Raymond Fisman & Tim Sullivan
• Book: The Opposable Mind by Roger L. Martin
• Book: The Revenge of Analog by David Sax
• Event: Toronto International Film Festival
• People: A. G. Lafley, Hillary Austin, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, Piers Handling
• School: Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto
• Award: Palme d’Or

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