Tag: 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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A Different Way to Understand Our Political Differences
John Armstrong: A Different Way to Understand Our Political Differences … Here is the point she [Kathleen Parker] makes about her recent move to New York City and CNN. Living in a city of 8.4 million people brings with it some distinct differences from living in a small town in South Carolina, where she lived…
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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…