Evolve Above Right & Wrong To Hold The Wisdom of Both/And | Wendy Smith Part 1

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We can better solve tough problems and make decisions we feel confident about, by not taking an either-or, black and white, or right and wrong approach to them. We are in a culture and media that is radically doing just that. And yet most truths and daily decisions we must make are not a result of right or wrong issues that we will live or die from, but rather, choices we make where one may prove more beneficial than another. When we hold things as right/wrong, good/bad, and either or we cause ourselves undo anxiety. And further, we are pressured to make one sided decisions without the wisdom we’d benefit from if we didn’t view different perspectives as opposing forces. This show is meant to equip you to make smarter decisions, and with less anxiety and more confidence. With me is Wendy K. Smith, a Harvard educated, award-winning academic and the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and faculty director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at University of Delaware. She is an expert on organizational paradoxes, exploring how leaders and individuals effectively respond to contradictory, yet interdependent demands. She spends her time continually working to better manage the paradoxes of life that we all face. Wendy’s research focuses on strategic paradoxes – how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas. Not with us, but a co-author of their new book,"Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems" is Marianne W. Lewis who is dean and professor of management at the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati. Marianne too is thought leader in organizational paradoxes exploring tensions and competing demands surrounding leadership and innovation. Again, the book containing the message in the following discussion is Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems which you can find at Amazon or anywhere. Self-Help(ful) is presented by Ziglar, the most trusted brand in personal and business development impacting over 250 million people worldwide. Visit Ziglar.com to see how they can inspire your true performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Self-Helpful Podcast. I'm Kevin Miller. I hunt for the latest and greatest authors and experts in Self-Help
0:20.0	and ask them the in-depth questions I'm curious about for my own growth.
0:24.0	I bring these conversations series to you so we can learn and grow together.
0:29.0	In this episode we're talking about solving tough problems and making decisions we feel confident about
0:36.0	by not taking an either or black and white right or wrong approach to them.
0:42.0	We're in a culture it's a wash with the media especially just that.
0:47.0	And yet most truths and daily decisions we must make are not a result of right or wrong issues necessarily
0:55.0	that we're going to live or die from but rather choices we make where one may prove more beneficial than another.
1:02.0	When we hold things as right wrong good bad either or we cause ourselves undue anxiety which we're seeing in the culture.
1:10.0	And further we're pressured to make these one-sided decisions all or nothing without the wisdom we'd benefit from
1:17.0	if we didn't view different perspectives as opposing forces.
1:21.0	This show is meant to equip you to make smarter decisions and with less anxiety and more confidence and more wisdom.
1:28.0	With me is Wendy K. Smith a Harvard educated award-winning academic and the Dana J. Johnson professor of management
1:37.0	and faculty director of the Women's Leadership Initiative at University of Delaware.
1:42.0	She's an expert on organizational paradoxes you'll hear us use that word a lot here paradoxes.
1:48.0	Exploring how leaders and individuals effectively respond to contradictory yet interdependent demands.
1:55.0	You can hear that verbage we're going to really dig into it.
1:58.0	She spends her time continually working to better manage the paradoxes of life that we all face.
2:03.0	Wendy's research focuses on strategic paradoxes and how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas.
2:12.0	Not with us but a co-author of their new book which is called Both and Thinking, Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems.
2:21.0	Co-author with her is Marianne W. Lewis who is dean and professor of management at the Lindner College of Business University of Cincinnati.
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