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Sometimes leaders think they have a problem. Really, they’re faced with a polarity: an ongoing dilemma that feels unsolvable. How can leaders identify and handle workplace polarities?
Effective leadership requires learning to manage polarities. Leaders can’t only focus on one strategy and pursue that relentlessly, without also planning for and considering the potential downsides of that focus. Too much on one side of the equation would cause the pendulum to shift too far one way or another.
So for example, when facing a question like, Should we focus on growth or efficiency? The answer is likely to be: Yes, focus on both.
This is what we can leadership polarities — also described as a paradox, conundrum, or contradiction — a dilemma that’s ongoing, unsolvable, and contains seemingly opposing ideas.
To be effective, managers must be able to recognize and handle leadership polarities, meaning they need to be able to see both perspectives clearly and at the same time, and to learn how to work through their respective ebbs and flows. Complex issues are rarely either/or, and you don’t have to pick “sides.”
This both/and thinking isn’t easy, but it stems from the reality that not everything is just another problem to solve. It’s a polarity to manage.
Equip your leaders with our paradox and polarity management training and they’ll be better prepared to recognize and lead your organization through the both/and complexities of today’s world.
Using polarity management training, leaders can learn a process to better understand and respond to issues that don’t have fixed solutions:
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Sometimes leaders think they have a problem. Really, they’re faced with a polarity: an ongoing dilemma that feels unsolvable. How can leaders identify and handle workplace polarities?
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