If it’s true that human nature is paradoxical, then why do so many management consultants get paid boat loads to implement ways to organize us and our work better? That’s absurd.
The more and more I work with people, the more and more I learn that the only way to get things done is to embrace the paradox, question the prevailing trends, and simply allow our nature to reveal itself.
Inspired by Richard Farson’s, “Management of the Absurd.”
The beauty of paradoxical thinking in management is its timelessness. Most ideas come and go with discouraging regularity in management literature and executive training programs. But paradox and absurdity will be with us as long as humans congregate in organizations.