Category: Polarity Management
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Polarity Management Versus Problem Solving
Question. When it comes to breathing, do you prefer inhaling or exhaling? I have asked this question many times, and it always elicits a chuckle. Clearly, if you choose one over the other, you end up dead. And if your body decided that this ongoing struggle between inhaling and exhaling was a problem to be…
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Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity
GoodWordEditing.com (Marcus Goodyear): Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity. I love this post. It ties in with some things I have written in the past about polarity management. I hope I know L.L. well enough to pick on her in my title. I love her post about conformity. Here’s a different thought. (Does that make…
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Theology and Economics: Polarity Management
As I was preparing to blog about ecology today, I realized I must introduce a key concept that influences how I approach complex and controversial problems like these. It is called polarity management. A few years ago, I read a wonderful book by Dr. Barry Johnson called Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems. His…