Episode #2: An interview with Polarity Thinking™ Living Legends
An interview with Polarity Thinking™ Living Legends
We are so grateful to have two “living legends” as our first guests on the podcast, Dr. Barry Johnson and Bonnie Wesorick. They are both phenomenal leaders whose life’s work has been to bring Polarity Thinking™ to the world. We are blessed they are our mentors, colleagues and friends!
During the interview Barry shares how the original Polarity Map® emerged in 1975 and how the work has expanded globally. Barry partnered with Bonnie Wesorick in the 1990’s as she recognized the significance of managing polarities to achieve healthcare transformation. Bonnie shares her journey in supporting a consortium of over 400 healthcare organizations in applying Polarity Thinking™ and how that led to the development of the first healthcare specific Polarity Assessment™.
Episode Summary Points:
· Polarity Thinking….the beginning
· Polarity Mapping – how we see invisible polarities
· The Infinity Loop – represents the energy between polarities
· “And” thinking supplements “Or” thinking – a polarity itself
· Healthcare Frameworks and Models to make sense of the whole
· We must know reality in healthcare
· Paradigm Shifts to Polarity Interdependent Pairs: Moving from “From-To” to Both-And”
· How the Polarity Assessment Tool measures key healthcare polarities in real time
Recommended resources:
Johnson, B. (1992). Polarity management: Identifying and managing unsolvable problems. Amherst, MA: HRD Press.
Wesorick, B., & Shaha, S. (2015). Guiding health care transformation: A next- generation, diagnostic remediation tool for leveraging polarities. Nursing Outlook, 63: .691-702. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2015.05.007.
Wesorick, B. (2016) Polarity Thinking: The missing logic to achieve healthcare transformation. Amherst, MA: HRD Press.
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