Dr. Wendy Smith - Both/And Thinking

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Dr. Wendy K. Smith is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and faculty director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. She began her intensive research on strategic paradoxes—how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory yet interdependent demands. Working with executives and scholars globally, she received the Web of Science Highly Cited Research Award (2019, 2020, and 2021) for being among her field's 1 percent most-cited researchers. She received the Decade Award (2021) from the Academy of Management Review for the most cited paper in the past ten years. Her work has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Organization

Science, and Management Science. She has taught at the University of Delaware, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania–Wharton while helping senior leaders and middle managers worldwide address issues of interpersonal dynamics, team performance, organizational change, and innovation. Wendy lives in Philadelphia with her husband, three children, and the family dog.

Connecting with Dr. Wendy Smith

• Twitter: @profwendysmith
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wendy-Smith-111141458290288 
• Instagram: @prof.wendysmith

A Quote From This Episode

• "Our mission is to invite people to not see tensions as a bad thing. But rather see tensions as a force of life, where we, as individuals, have the opportunity, have the agency to approach them differently."

The Discovering Leadership Textbook

• Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success by Middlebrooks, Allen, McNutt, and Morrison

Resources/Authors Mentioned in This Episode

• Book - Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems  by Wendy Smith & Marianne Lewis  
• Book - Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte 
• Book - Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust  by Adam Kahane 
• Book - A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change by Dolly Chugh 
• Newsletter - Dolly Chugh - Dear Good People 

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