ABSTRACT

Throughout this book, we have been encouraged to seek a balance and integrate opposing and contradictory perspectives, or metos . We have followed the swinging pendulum from the ancient Greek concept of strategy, which assumed an unresolvable tension and mutuality between chaos and ordered cosmos , all the way over to technical rationality of the modern era, with its obsession on the linear, rational, scientifi c approach to strategy making. Still, in search of the Holy Grail for learning to think strategically, we fi nd ourselves at a crossroads, eager to move forward and apply what we have learned.