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Although business owners commonly see paradoxes as obstacles to progress, creative problem solvers and scientists see paradoxes differently:
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox, now we have some hope for making progress.1
Niels Bohr
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Introduction
1 Niels Bohr, The quotation is cited by L. I. Ponomarev, The Quantum Dice(London: IOP Publishing, 1993), p. 75.
2 John L. Ward, Keeping the Family Business Healthy(Georgia: Family Enterprise Publishers, 1997), pp. 1–3.
3 Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction(New York: Doubleday, 2001), p. 8.
4 John L. Ward (ed.), Unconventional Wisdom(West Sussex: John Wiley, 2006), p. xix.
5 John L. Ward (ed.), Unconventional Wisdom(West Sussex: John Wiley, 2006), p. xix.
6 Dominic Dodd and Ken Favaro, The Three Tensions(USA: Jossey-Bass, 2007), p. 68.
7 Peter F. Drucker, The Practice of Management(New York: Harper & Row, 1954), p. 342.
8 Barry Johnson, Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems(Amherst, Mass.: HRD Press, 1996), and Polarity Management Associates, http://www.polaritymanagement.com.
9 Greg Page, ‘The business of paradox’, Cargill News, vol. 70, no. 4 (Jan-Feb 2006), p. 4.
10 Eric Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics(USA: First Owl, 1990), p. 45.
11 Pierre Wack, “Scenarios: uncharted waters ahead,” Harvard Business Review(September-October 1985), p. 72.
12 Greg Page, ‘The business of paradox’, Cargill News, vol. 70, no. 4 (Jan-Feb 2006), p. 5.
13 Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers,6th edn (New York: Touchstone, 1991), p. 142.
14 Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and Norihiko Shimizu, “The contradictions that drive Toyota’s success,” Harvard Business Review(June 2008), p. 98. (Information and charts derived from this article.)
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Schuman, A., Stutz, S., Ward, J.L. (2010). Introduction: Appreciating Both. In: Family Business as Paradox. A Family Business Publication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230291768_1
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