65Variations and Theories of Excellence
Enterprises can be conceptualized as potentially being able to apply seemingly mutually
exclusive concepts; enabling holistic, integrative, and inductive thinking; simultaneously using
apparently contradictory concepts; and obviating the need to perceive enterprises as full of irrec-
oncilable trade-offs. The all-and principle enables a perspective of enterprise as being both control
and people oriented, seeing people aspects both as ends and means, being control oriented while
maintaining an adequate level of exibility, focusing on quality as well as on efciency, or showing
both a humanistic and a mechanistic focus.
Technology, especially IT, resolves the paradox between the requirements for adequate ...