Barry Johnson

ThinkersOrganizational consultant

Works

  • Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, HRD Press, 1992

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Known for

A consultant who developed polarity management for problems that cannot be solved, only managed: pairs of interdependent opposites such as stability and change, where choosing one pole for good fails and a group does better by moving between them over time.

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