Wednesday, October 23, 2019

The Best “Polarity Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

 Overly rigid polarity creates blind spots in decision making and causes management pitfalls to stifle collective progress.


"Digital Master is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Polarity Thinking” quotes in “Digital Master.


1 In the industrial world with silo and knowledge scarcity, the majority of people were used to binary thinking with rigid polarity, take the side without deep understanding.

2 Overly rigid polarity creates blind spots in decision making and causes management pitfalls to stifle collective progress.

3 Collectively, group polarization has become one of the biggest pitfalls in decision making. Based on the varieties of industry studies. Group polarization means that a group of people can make a more extreme decision than an individual.

4 The leaders or business professionals with polarity or binary thinking are resistant to listen to the diverse viewpoint; have no intention to understand the other side of the coin; push the people to take the side, many times, they become the part of problems which they try to solve.

5 To put simply, a binary or a polarity thinker is a lack of balance to understand things in a holistic way.

6 To avoid polarity or thinking extremely, you have to practice multi-dimensional thinking processes such as critical thinking, creative thinking, systems thinking, analytical thinking, synthetic thinking, holistic thinking and more.

7 A binary or polar thinker is often embracing the two opposite sides of viewpoint, and take the two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world, they perceive things either good or bad, right or wrong, black or white, there are no shades in between.

8 Either you call it “extreme thinking,” “binary thinking,” or “bipolar thinking,” such mind is too rigid in the outlook; too judgmental in managing relationship; too static to sense the change; too silo to think big picture, and too linear to fit in the non-linear digital world.

9 It is important to encourage digital leaders or professionals to understand how polarity or “extreme thinking” can build the wall at the peoples’ heart, damage relationship building, and make it hard for them to adapt to the hybrid “coopetitive” (competition+cooperation) digital environment.

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