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Change Your Thinking From Either/Or Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis Harvard Business Review Press, $30, 336 pp.
Polarization and either/or thinking has historically dominated Western culture, perpetuating tension, conflict, and discord. That form of thinking is extremely limiting. Smith and Lewis suggest that a more empowering and useful way of thinking is to embrace paradox-the reality that opposing ideas, beliefs, and data are in fact interconnected and interdependent.
What becomes possible when we shift our thinking from being highly polarized to embracing paradox? The authors say, Creative...