Wendy Smith on Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

The Burleson Box: A Podcast from Dustin Burleson, DDS, MBA

Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our individuality while also being a team player? How do we balance work and life? How can we improve diversity while promoting opportunities for all? How can we manage the core business while innovating for the future?

For many of us, these competing and interwoven demands are a source of conflict. Since our brains love to make either-or choices, we choose one option over the other. We deal with the uncertainty by asserting certainty.

There's a better way.

In Both/And Thinking, Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis help readers cope with multiple, knotted tensions at the same time. Drawing from more than twenty years of pioneering research, they provide tools and lessons for transforming these tensions into opportunities for innovation and personal growth.

Filled with practical advice and fascinating stories—including firsthand tales from IBM, LEGO, and Unilever, as well as from startups, nonprofits, and even an inn at one of the four corners of the world—Both/And Thinking will change the way you approach your most vexing problems.

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Resources Mentioned in the Episode with Wendy Smith:

• Both And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
• Both And Thinking Book Website
• Paradox Mindset Inventory
• Smith, W. Dynamic decision making: a model of senior leaders managing strategic paradoxes. Academy of Management Journal 2014, Vol. 57, No.6, 1592-1623.
• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston

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