Session Overview:
As part of our Executive Integral Leadership course at Notre Dame, our team will be presenting to several groups on some of the course content we found applicable. This topic on Polarities explores the types of thinking that can hinder a company's decision making and addresses ways to be more expansive and growth mindset oriented. It was universally appreciated and one that I'm eager to share with our various teams. - Please feel free to share with others as this will be virtual.
Learning Objectives:
Outline the differences between problems and paradoxes
Learn how we suffer and navigate paradoxes
Learn the 5 steps of navigating a polarity
Understand the difference between benefits and overuses of polarities and how to map them
Discuss the transformational throughway
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Outline the differences between problems and polarities.
2. Learn how we suffer and navigate paradoxes.
3. Learn the 5 steps of navigating a polarity.
4. Understand the difference between the benefits and overuses of
polarities and how to map them.
5. Discover the transformational throughway.
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POLARITIES
A SITUATION IN WHICH TWO
INTERDEPENDENT AND SEEMINGLY
CONTRADICTORY STATES MUST BE
MAINTAINED FOR SUCCESS OVER TIME.
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Executive Integral Leadership | Team 4
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POLARITIES IN
ORGANIZATIONS
CENTRALIZED
STRUCTURE
BIG PICTURE
STABILITY
EMPLOYEE INTERESTS
RESPECT FOR PERSON
DECENTRALIZED
FLEXIBILITY
DETAILS
CHANGE
ORGANIZATIONAL INTERESTS
RESPECT FOR PERFORMANCE
CAN YOU THINK
OF OTHERS?
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STRUCTURE FLEXIBILITY
OVERUSES
OVERUSES
BENEFITS
BENEFITS
TRANSFORMATIONAL
THIRD WAY
VULNERABILITY
THROUGHWAY
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STRUCTURE FLEXIBILITY
OVERUSES
OVERUSES
BENEFITS
BENEFITS
TRANSFORMATIONAL
THIRD WAY
VULNERABILITY
THROUGHWAY
PREDICTABLE
CONTROL
EFFICIENT
CREATIVE
EMPOWERMENT
ADJUSTABLE
NO CREATIVITY
CONFINING
RIGID
NO CONSISTENCY
CHAOTIC
WASTEFUL
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VULNERABILITY AND PARADOX
1. Stronger preferences can define parts of our identity.
2. Fear of opposite overuses (and loss of benefits) restricts
both/and opportunities.
3. Lost time fearing losses that have occurred or protecting
against future losses.
4. Fear is the resistance enables either/or. Vulnerability enables
both/and.
5. When you can’t rationalize or empathize, either/or seems
appropriate.
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STRUCTURE FLEXIBILITY
OVERUSES
OVERUSES
BENEFITS
BENEFITS
TRANSFORMATIONAL
THIRD WAY
VULNERABILITY
THROUGHWAY
PREDICTABLE
CONTROL
EFFICIENT
CREATIVE
EMPOWERMENT
ADJUSTABLE
NO CREATIVITY
CONFINING
RIGID
NO CONSISTENCY
CHAOTIC
WASTEFUL
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OVERUSES
OVERUSES
BENEFITS
BENEFITS
TRANSFORMATIONAL
THIRD WAY
VULNERABILITY
THROUGHWAY
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INNOVATION LEADERSHIP MINDSETS
CERTAINTY
ACTION
MY POINT OF VIEW
GAP FOCUS
REDUCING AMBIGUITY
CURIOSITY
REFLECTION
ALTERNATIVE POINTS OF VIEW
STRENGTH FOCUS
EMBRACING AMBIGUITY