I'm often in a position where I have to make staffing choices that don't seem to be an ideal fit. Using the paradoxical thinking process for finding alternatives has given me insight I would not have seen otherwise. Now when I'm asked, 'Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?" I respond enthusiastically, 'Yes!'

Frank Skidmore, Director (CIO), Quality and Information Technology Networking Systems, IBM Corporation

Olwyler and Fletcher . . . provide very practical advice for sorting out tough choices and taking action to resolve them. Read this book carefully. It will change your view of the world-and of yourself. More importantly, it will raise your personal performance-I guarantee it.

Edwina Melville-Gray, Director, Training and Development, Hay Management Consultants.

Paradoxical Thinking: How to Profit from Your Contradictions
by Kelle Olwyler and Jerry L. Fletcher

Conflict management consultants and trainers, facilitators, executive coaches, business coaches, life coaches and managers will find the concepts and practical applications in Paradoxical Thinking: How to Profit from Your Contradictions will give them a major tool to add to their kit. Paradoxical Thinking is unique in that is can be applied in many arenas with slight variations. Many have used it in their areas of expertise, including conflict management, group and team dynamics, executive coaching, self-coaching, high performance, problem definition, maximizing potential, and overcoming roadblocks.

The book provides a field for reflection, while giving practical tools for application and taking action. It includes: learning by example, 2 case histories that follow the books chapters almost to the end; applying paradoxical thinking to self, others and to groups. The processes offered can help to make, in an unthreatening manner, the whole person visible. It shines a light onto all aspects present in a person, including the shadow side.

The oxymoronic process is fun, light hearted while allowing for all truth to be present, even "the hard stuff."