Join us on Wednesday September 9 from 12 noon to 12:45 p.m. for our Polarity Thinking Virtual Open House to learn more about George Mason University's Polarity Thinking program and its tools. Drop in anytime during this informal discussion to get your questions answered. Polarities are interdependent forces that create tension in complex situations. This certification [...]
On November 18, 2018 Judith Glaser died from pancreatic cancer. She was a lifetime student of human behavior, organizational anthropologist, corporate consultant, executive coach, and best-selling business author. I thought of her and her great work recently when, while intending to hold a family member accountable for a social media post I believed was offensive, [...]
The Critical Competency for the 21st Century Leaders: Solving What’s Solvable and Leveraging What’s Not When a leader, team, or organizational system is facing a change, conflict, chronic issue, or cross-cultural challenge, one a question that has potential to create outsized results is: “Is this challenge solvable sustainably by choosing either one or the other [...]
Independence Day Reflections on a Few of My Heroes “Polarity Thinking is a supplement to either/or problem-solving thinking – not a replacement.” Barry Johnson, PhD Our individual and collective effort to achieve independence was not expected to succeed. Against the odds the grand experiment of American independence and its representative self-government has succeeded. Bucking the idea of [...]
The Supreme Court's gay marriage decision contributed to improving the degree of leverage between Part and Whole on our nation's path to a more perfect union. I celebrate it here by pulling a few choice pieces from Justice Kennedy into a Part and Whole Polarity Map. Upside benefits of Part—Freedom, Uniqueness, and Initiative “The Constitution [...]
Individualism and Communitarianism | Science and Religion I appreciated very much an article in the Saturday, June 20 Religion section of The Washington Post written by Chris Mooney entitled, “ Papal message challenges some All-American values.” Mooney mentions that with the official release of Pope Francis's encyclical on the online gaming environment, it's clear that several [...]