Preface
Part I. What is Paradoxical Thinking
Chapter 1: Effective Paradoxes
Chapter 2: Finding Your Core Personal Paradox
Chapter 3: Perception-Shifting
Chapter 4: Defining Your Problem Situation and Setting Your Goal
Chapter 5: Rating Yourself on Flecher's Pendulum
Chapter 6: Choosing Action Steps to Improve Your Self-Ratings
Part II. Applying Paradoxical Thinking
Chapter 7: Avoiding the Loss of a Major Sale
Chapter 8: Resolving the Problem of a Stalled Employee in an Unexpected Way
Chapter 9: Selling a House in an Unexpected Way
Chapter 10: Reestablishing Parental Communication with a Teenage Daughter
Chapter 11: Intuiting the Pendulum of Someone Else in Order to Work Better With Them
Chapter 12: Using Paradoxical Thinking to Improve Team And Organizational Performance
Part III. Answers and Benefits
Chapter 13: Some Questions and Answers
Chapter 14: How to Profit from Your Contradictions
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Appendix
Index
About the Authors