HOPE! Strong Floor & No Ceiling (Part I)

By |2026-03-03T10:14:39-05:00February 22nd, 2026|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Human Rights And Communal Obligations, Polarity Thinking, Strong Floor, The Polarity Assessment™|

Some days it’s hard to be hopeful. The scope and scale of polarization and doom-loop thinking about the U.S. and the future can feel like an hourly, daily, monthly assault on the senses. Then a book like Strong Floor, No Ceiling comes out. My intuition sirens flare and my energy returns. A few differently firing synapses, [...]

Hate Friends’ or Colleagues’ POVs? Here’s the Secret to Getting Along

By |2023-01-10T17:36:47-05:00January 1st, 2023|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, The Polarity Assessment™|

(Cliff Kayser of Polarity Partnerships, LLC provides this summary w/additions from an August 2022 article that appeared in NEWSWEEK by colleagues Marianne Lewis and Wendy Smith.) Today's world is becoming increasingly fractured. Confirmation bias abounds where people stay within safe circles of friends and colleagues who agree with them, and the opinions they hear mirror [...]

Hybrid work isn’t working: Here’s a better approach

By |2023-01-10T17:35:57-05:00December 27th, 2022|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, The Polarity Assessment™|

(Cliff Kayser of Polarity Partnerships, LLC provides this summary w/additions from an August 2022 article in FastCompany by colleagues Marianne Lewis and Wendy Smith.) How can adopting ‘both/and thinking’ to move beyond a simple yet often destructive formula and develop more creative and productive solutions. While we want the best of home and work, too [...]

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