Aaron Wong’s Reviews > Navigating Polarities: Using Both/And Thinking to Lead Transformation > Status Update

Facilitating groups:
• Shared visual: Writing looks less formalized (compared to typing) and so keeps people creative
• Populating the map: Allow groups to rotate & populate the quadrants in four corners of a room, perhaps summarizing with an image
• Third Way: metaphor, made-up word/phrase
• Think-Pair-Square: personal to group vulnerabilities
- p. 115-117

Third Way is more doing than being, and will not always be equally weighted. However, getting more X without losing Y might seem utopian and result in effort inflation. - p. 114

Include other stakeholders in retreats e.g. PSG, SAC. - p. 109

🖥️Monitor to Discern, 5️⃣/5️⃣:
• manage polarities through integration over time
• revisit Navigator to discern progress & next steps
• discuss with stakeholders for multiple perspectives
• long-term success
• courage to question & be honest
• ongoing process to value all perspectives & commit to dialogue
- p. 97-98

🗺️Map to Understand, 2️⃣/5️⃣:
• include stakeholders
• name benefits & overuses
• objectify polarities
• dialogue to make meaning
- p. 95

Act to Expand, 4️⃣/5️⃣:
• intentional action over time
• based on standing in the Third Way & stepping into the Vulnerability Throughway
• platform for action
• strategies should be realistic & drive accountability
• may need project tracker, agendas, or schedules
- p. 96-97

Map to Understand, 2️⃣/5️⃣:
• reintegrating poles after differentiating
• visualising the experience if both poles exist simultaneously
• connecting deeply to a vision
• identifying what feels risky & embracing the vulnerability
• increasing understanding & sense to navigate effectively
• robust & sustainable strategies
- p. 95-96

Navigating polarities, 1️⃣/5️⃣:
• problem or polarity?
• most important & difficult step
• requires benefits of both poles for success
• results from overusing a pole
- p. 92-93

5️⃣ steps to navigate polarities:
1. 🔎Analyse to See: Problem or polarity?
2. 🗺️Map to Understand: Benefits & Overuses
3. 🧭Explore to Connect: Third Way & Vulnerability
4. 💗Act to Expand: Strategies & Actions
5. 🖥️Monitor to Discern: Watch & Adjust
- p. 92