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A search for more inclusive business solutions that creatively transcend tension

Even after years of reflecting on the business of life, years devoted to learning and building my knowledge of how organisations, people and business work, so much still remains an enigma. Knowledge should be the key to that enigma, yet the more we have the more problems we need to solve.  Observation, experience and research suggest that it is possible to make a difference in today’s complex business world by paying attention to two things: –  making connections and embracing contradictions.

Those connections could require physical infrastructure – technologies to bridge the gap between people, places and organsations. They could be personal – relationships and conversations amongst individuals, families and communities. Or they could be mental- the patterns of neurons firing in your brain, even as you read this. 

Contradictions exist in all these connections. Valueing diversity whilst finding some alignment of interests is a constant challenge. What we think we know for sure and the values we hold dear rarely align with the experience, expertise, and preferences of others.   The demands of global business create a constant need to manage the tension between top and bottom, global and local priorities, internal and external expectations, present and the future security, stability and change, efficiency and innovation.  And do it goes on. Contradicitions are endless. They can be both a well-spring of creativity and a source of inertia and dis-ease.  Somehow we have to find ways to use these  differences constructively rather than divisively if we want to get more from knowledge in business.  

 

The aim of this blog is to explore all of these dimensions in the context of how knowledge can contribute to organsiational value creation.  To search for more inclusive business solutions that creatively transcend non constructive tension.  By making connections and embracing apparent contradictions we will be looking for ideas that help organsiations rise above the dilemmas that hamper business performance.