#398 Effective Leaders

In search of lessons to [1] in our own careers, we often try to [2] 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, approach is to look at how such leaders [3] . After extensive interviews with more than 50 of them, the author discovered that most are [4] 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 [5] but is superior to both.