Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

Many people naturally gravitate to simplistic thinking. It’s fast, it feels like common sense in the moment, and can sometimes be captured by slogans that use alliteration, rhymes, or parallel ...

We live in a society where we often think in “either/or” terms. In this style of thinking, only one thing can be true and we struggle to handle competing tensions, tasks and assignments. We get ...

Recent controversy over the management of Washington’s older state-owned forests has been dominated by an either/or framework: Either we clear-cut these tracts or prevent any harvest at all. Cut it ...

Defaulting to the best of two options is a binary trap. Improve business outcomes by substituting either/or thinking with “multiple-choice thinking.” Most business decisions are presented as either/or ...