ANDlightenment: Polarity Thinking, from Self to Society

by Douglas OLoughlin, Barry Johnson (foreword)

This is a simple book with a powerful idea, that seeing and leveraging polarities can change our lives and our world. Shifts happen when we see two ideas and recognize them as interdependent pairs. Polarities serve a higher purpose when they are integrated - like Performance AND People, Stable AND Dynamic, or to Challenge AND Support others.

Managing polarities is one of the best tools we have for managing complexity and thinking more expansively, i.e. to look for a larger purpose and an integration of ideas. What is unique about this book is the buffet of polarities offered for exploration, from ones we deal with internally, when partnering with others, in organisations, and across society.

Polarity thinking helps us be better dancers with ideas and people, in our interactions, meetings, etc.
Carl Jung reminds us of the larger purpose for this book and other explorations of polarities, when he articulated the potential energy that exists for every level of the system, from the intrapersonal all the way out to the “The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2024