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The Managing Paradox Workshop
Doing more with Less – Productive Conflict – Agile Strategy – Being ready for the Unknown
Linear problem solving techniques and simplistic models rarely advance strategic intent. Organizations must find, and proactively renew, core and enabling strategic paradox – those unique advantages that form the basis for success and depend on leader’s thinking power.
The Managing Paradox workshop is an intensive intact team experience where learning advanced theories occurs through a high performing team experience with practical application and real representative problems from your organization. Managing Paradox is available in a 2.5 day live experiential workshop or can be virtually delivered through engaging online sessions with guided small group application and whole group integration.
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The Paradox Workshop is available in multiple US and global locations, contact us for venue options and availability
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Robert “Jake” Jacobs - MSOD
(Master Polarity Facilitator)
Adjunct Business Professor, Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, Naval Postgraduate Institute, and Loyola Marymount
Thirty-five years of consulting
on large scale change engagements in public, private and non-profit organizations including: TJ Maxx, Ford Motor Company, New York C
Robert “Jake” Jacobs - MSOD
(Master Polarity Facilitator)
Adjunct Business Professor, Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, Naval Postgraduate Institute, and Loyola Marymount
Thirty-five years of consulting
on large scale change engagements in public, private and non-profit organizations including: TJ Maxx, Ford Motor Company, New York City, and Volunteers of America
Author of two books and dozens of articles including You Don’t Have to Do it Alone which The New York Times called “one of the best of the current crop of books on involvement.”
Jeff Flesher
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Jeff Flesher - B.S, M.S., Ph.D. (Problem Solving and Expertise)
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Twenty-five years of executive leadership in Learning and Organization Development including: Underwriters Laboratories, Biomet, Abbott Laboratories, and ComEd
Architect of Executive Programs including partn
Jeff Flesher - B.S, M.S., Ph.D. (Problem Solving and Expertise)
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Twenty-five years of executive leadership in Learning and Organization Development including: Underwriters Laboratories, Biomet, Abbott Laboratories, and ComEd
Architect of Executive Programs including partnerships with MIT, Yale, Notre Dame and Northwestern University
Author of two books Leadership From Below, Paradoxes of Submarine Leadership, and Change Soup, Leading Inspired Change
Bill Putsis
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
Bill Putsis
William “Bill” Putsis – B.S., M.S, Ph.D. (Economics)
Professor of Marketing, Economics and Business Strategy at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Executive program faculty at the Yale School of Management and Duke CE.
Previous faculty positions at Cornell University, Yale Univer
William “Bill” Putsis – B.S., M.S, Ph.D. (Economics)
Professor of Marketing, Economics and Business Strategy at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Executive program faculty at the Yale School of Management and Duke CE.
Previous faculty positions at Cornell University, Yale University, and the London Business School
Consultant to numerous Fortune 500 firms and over 30 Scholarly articles on strategy and competition and author of two books: Compete Smarter, Not Harder and The Carrot and The Stick