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Smith is a professor of management at the University of Delaware, known for her research on strategic paradoxes and leadership.
Known for: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
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Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Both/And Thinking explores how individuals and organizations can embrace paradoxes—such as stability and change, competition and cooperation, or work and life—to achieve more sustainable success. Drawing on decades of research in organizational behavior and leadership, the authors present practical frameworks for navigating complex challenges through integrative thinking rather than choosing between opposing options.
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The Limits of Either/Or Thinking
Our decision-making culture has been dominated by either/or logic. In business, we’re told to pick between centralization and decentralization, exploration and exploitation, short-term performance and long-term vision. In our personal lives, we’re similarly caught between professional ambition and p...
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Understanding the Paradox System
To help individuals and organizations work through complex tensions, we developed what we call the *Paradox System*. It starts with recognition—seeing paradoxes not as temporary dilemmas but as ongoing, interdependent forces that coexist. Once we name the paradox, we can navigate it through both/and...
From Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
About Wendy K. Smith
Smith is a professor of management at the University of Delaware, known for her research on strategic paradoxes and leadership.
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