3/14/2000
"Managing the paradoxes that manage you" is the thrust of this
practical guide for cutting-edge leaders who want to foresee and determine the
future of their businesses. Filled with expert commentary as
well as handy tests to evaluate your own visionary skills, The Visionary's
Handbook considers what the authors pinpoint as the nine key contradictions
of doing business. Among these are The Paradox of Size ("The bigger you
are, the smaller you need to be."); The Paradox of the Visionary ("The
closer your vision gets to a provable truth, the more you are simply describing
the present."); and The Paradox of Action ("You've got to go for what
you can't expect to get. You must act intuitively and be equally ready to take
resolute counter-intuitive action.")
to come