Eliminating Black-and-White Thinking Increases the Spectrum of Opportunities
by Leisa Chester Weir
In the design and fashion world, gray is this season’s color of choice. Whether it’s upholstery or fabric, nail polish or eye shadow, chairs or tables, paint or wallpaper, Crate and Barrel or Sephora, gray has gradually found its way into the American psyche.
Perhaps it is time for more managers to embrace the shades-of-gray thinking. What does this mean? Clients are not always this way or never that way – as much as Mad Men’s Roger Sterling may disagree. Situations do not have to be either/or opposites. Staff members are not perfect or horrible. Evaluations and ideas do not have to be passing or failing. Statements can be true and false, depending on the circumstances.
Here are a couple of reasons to think gray:
• There are more options for solutions when you can delve into the entire rainbow of possibilities.
• It allows creativity to open up and flow in all directions and not just to the two opposing sides.
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