Business Administration 3300K Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Integrative Thinking, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 3300K
• Professor: Alexander Miller

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Moo session 2: how successful leaders think roger martin: introduction & example bob young, when trying to copy successful leaders important to look at how leader thinks not what leader does. 2. 1 step 1: determining salience: which factors to take into account. Conventional thinkers: discard as many factors as possible, focus only on obviously relevant ones. Integrative thinkers: seek less obvious but potentially relevant factors; welcome the complexity because that is where best answers come from. 2. 2 step 2: analysing causality: analyse how numerous salient factors relate to one another. Conventional thinker: consider only one-way, linear relationships between variables -> leads to sometimes wrong assumption of magnitude of relationship or even wrong direction of relationship. Integrative thinker: consider multidirectional, nonlinear relationships among variables; not afraid to question validity of apparently obvious links. 2. 3 step 3: envisioning the decision architecture: how to see the issue and make the decisions.