Polarity Management
Polarity Management helps individuals and organizations manage polarities, or dilemmas, which are inherently unavoidable and unsolvable. Dealing with certain issues requires a "both-and" mindset rather than "either-or"; for example, organizations need both stability and change, not one or the other.

Polarity Management Associates
http://www.polaritymanagement.com

Accidental Adversaries
Defensive behaviors can often undermine partnerships and turn allies into adversaries.

Kemeny, Jennifer. "Accidental Adversaries: When Friends Become Foes." The Systems Thinker, February 1994. Copies of the article can be ordered from Pegasus Communications, http://www.pegasuscom.com/tstpage.html

Combating Mediocre Teaching
Alexander Platt and Caroline Tripp have examined how school leaders can effectively change a culture of mediocre performance.

Platt, Alexander, and Caroline Tripp. "Confronting Institutional Mediocrity." The School Administrator, October 2000. http://www.aasa.org/publications/sa/2000_10/Tripp.htm

Platt, Alexander, Caroline Tripp, et. al. The Skillful Leader. Ready-About Press, 2000.
This book can be ordered directly from Ready-About Press, http://www.ready-about.com

Open Space
Open space is a technique which allows participants to set their own agenda for part or all of a conference, in order to promote self-managed work groups, empowered and distributed leadership, community building, and appreciation of diversity as a resource and not as a problem to be managed.

Open Space Training Index
http://www.openspaceworld.com

Other recommended books and articles are listed on the last page of every Review, the Education Initiatives newsletter.

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