Leverage Opposite Forces

To be successful in today's complex, rapidly changing and highly competitive world, you must embrace, manage and synergize critical opposites.

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To unleash the power of synergized diversities and achieve greater BUSINESS SUCCESS, don't identify opposites as inconsistencies and drive them out, integrate diversities instead.

"This is true on both a personal level (the balanced manager is more effective than his or her peer at one end of the control spectrum) and on organizational level as well... On an organization level we accept the existence of hard and soft dichotomies because this binary perspective helps to rationalize personal styles, viewpoints, and structures. Polarized thinking is simplistic and misleading. In the business world, ideal approaches are generally painted in gray as opposed to black and white," writes Mark Stevens, the author of Extreme Management.

You can inspire → innovation and find a strategic → competitive advantage in an organizational and cultural context by seeking to leverage, rather than diminish, opposite forces. People with different → cultural, educational, scientific, and business backgrounds will bring → different frames of reference to a → problem and can spark an exciting and dynamic cross-pollination of ideas.

→ Creative Problem Solving: Switching Perceptions