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Polarity Management™: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
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Polarity Management™: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

by Barry Johnson PhD
January 1996
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 36m
English
HRD Press
Content preview from Polarity Management™: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
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Crusading for “Change”
Clearly, one recent emphasis in management has been on change.
Everything is seen as in flux. As a leader, you are told that you must
learn how to deal effectively with change or your organization will
not be able to compete. Because you are also told that “people resist
change,” you need to figure out how to manage this resistance in
order to make needed changes.
These points are accurate and incomplete. In Polarity Manage-
ment terms, they are the basis of a general “crusade” toward the
upside of Change. This crusade is a part of the polarity of Stability
and Change. From this polarity perspective, we automatically have
some clues about how to be effective with this issue. One thing we
know is that the more ...
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