{"product_id":"paradoxical-thinking-isbn-9781881052807","title":"Paradoxical Thinking","description":"Unlikely as it may seem, sprinters who relax run faster. In fact, simultaneously feeling both aggressive and relaxed is essential to their peak performance. Similar, seemingly contradictory patterns abound: Bill Gates's success is built on both his vision and his practicality; former New York governor Mario Cuomo is both passionate and intellectual, action-oriented and reflective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After more than fifteen years of studying thousands of detailed examples of people performing at their best, Fletcher and Olwyler have found that individuals are always paradoxical when performing optimally and that each person has a particular combination of contradictory and paradoxical qualities that work together to produce that person's best work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Paradoxical Thinking they provide a 5-step process to help you identify your own core personal contradictions, and harness them to achieve outstanding results at work and in your personal life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You can probably recall a difficult situation in which you performed surprisingly well-and being mystified after the fact as to exactly how you achieved such a high level of performance. Paradoxical Thinking takes the mystery and unpredictability out of performing at your peak by providing an easy-to-learn method of understanding and maximizing your personal success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on years of real-world road testing with individuals and corporate leaders, the authors' five-step \"Paradoxical Thinking\" method helps you consciously bring together the paradoxical sides of yourself to achieve outstanding results individually, on teams, and in organizations. Using an important problem or goal you are currently facing, Paradoxical Thinking will help you:\u003cbr\u003e o Identify your own core personal paradox\u003cbr\u003e o Redefine your problem or goal so that it can be approached paradoxically\u003cbr\u003e o Monitor how well you are utilizing your personal paradox\u003cbr\u003e o Take positive action steps to overcome roadblocks and banish cycles of ineffectiveness of your paradoxical qualities and tools for using-instead of fighting-them, you can realize your potential, maximize your inherent strengths, and consistently achieve the results you seek in every aspect of your personal and professional life.Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. What is Paradoxical Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Effective Paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Finding Your Core Personal Paradox\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Perception-Shifting\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Defining Your Problem Situation and Setting Your Goal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Rating Yourself on Flecher's Pendulum \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Choosing Action Steps to Improve Your Self-Ratings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Applying Paradoxical Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Avoiding the Loss of a Major Sale \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Resolving the Problem of a Stalled Employee in an Unexpected Way\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Selling a House in an Unexpected Way\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Reestablishing Parental Communication with a Teenage Daughter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Intuiting the Pendulum of Someone Else in Order to Work Better With Them\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Using Paradoxical Thinking to Improve Team And Organizational Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Answers and Benefits\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Some Questions and Answers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: How to Profit from Your Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Annotated Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the AuthorsJerry L. Fletcher is the founder and president of High Performance Dynamics, a management development and consulting company with major corporate clients, including DEC, G.D. Searle, the Monsanto Chemical Group, IBM, Procter and Gamble, Bull H\/N, Control Data, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. He is the author of Patterns of High Performance and Paradoxical Thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Kelle Olwyler is founder of Kel Bergan Consulting, a company that focuses on one-on-one executive coaching, team consulting, and innovative thinking processes. Formerly vice president of High Performance Dynamics, she was responsible for training and managing consultants and trainers in high performance technologies and consulting processes in the United States, France, England, and Latin America. 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