How core tensions can tear you apart if you don’t find the right balance Globe_Careers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pivotal tension, Mr. Alec Lowy feels, involves preserving his leadership reputation versus containing the SNC-Lavalin issue without appearing to be autocratic or dishonest in the process.Consultant Terry St. Marie refers to a seesaw. Toronto business adviser Alec Lowy considers them core tensions. I call them contradictions.
we seesaw over, tilting between one or the other: Current processes vs. innovation ... openness vs. secrecy ... risk-taking vs. conservatism ... hubris vs. humility ... talking vs. listening ... and holding people accountable vs. showing some leniency.“How we deal with these contradictions and find our balance on the seesaw can be the difference between good and great,” he writes.
That comes, says Mr. Lowy, by exploring the dynamic tension between the choices through a 2x2 matrix: Place one element of the core tensions plaguing you on each axis and see what is revealed. Mr. Lowy combined in 2004 with his Silicon Valley-based partner Phil Hood to produceI asked him if he could show how the process works in something recent and he picked the political conflagration over SNC-Lavalin. Like me, you may be over-saturated on that issue, but he wasn’t looking into the past.
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