We’ve all encountered the Abilene Paradox at some point, but maybe we didn’t know the scholarly phrase for it. In short, most summarize it as management by agreement, whether for the best or worst.

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A few years ago, a friend of mine brought the idea of paradoxical leadership to my attention. I had never heard of it before and didn't do a deep dive until a separate colleague mentioned it again. It ...

A thought experiment in which one twin (A) travels into space at nearly the speed of light and returns to find she has aged less than her sibling (B) who has remained on Earth. This result is ...

This paper identifies four paradoxes of parties. These paradoxes illustrate not only substantive problems in their own right but also diverse ways that formal models can help to define and address ...

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What does it feel like to be both alive and dead? That question irked and inspired Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Wigner in the 1960s. He was frustrated by the paradoxes arising from the vagaries ...