This Presentation discusses first, in contrast to herding cats, birds and fish find that the benefits (rewards) of working together far exceed the benefits of flying or swimming individually. The presentation then proceeds by giving an alternative model to the popular Polarized Thinking Model by suggesting an alternative one. This new model not only expands on the benefits, but also shows that even streamlining the differences can have influential effect on our private and business lives. This model finds support in nature such as plasma and metals whose negative electrons generate electricity that empower us. Then why not do the same with our negative differences by visualizing them as electrons?

1. A New Model for Polarized Thinking
Ali Anani, PhD

2. What Makes Birds Flock Together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY

3. What Makes Fish Move in Schools?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15B8qN9dre4

4. What Makes Electrons In Metals Move
Together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ileXLAvDXIU

5. What Makes Electrons In Plasma Move
Together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94tReSbyPYc

6. What Makes Herding Cats Prefer not to Herd
Together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IpknZ5C9Q

7. What Makes Teams Act as Herding Cats
Prefer not to Herd Together?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck4syJk5Jk8

8. Birds flock together because:
Birds save 78% of their
energy if they fly in flocks
An individual bird has far
greater opportunity of not
being selected by a
predator than when flying
alone

9. What Makes Fish Move in Schools?
An individual fish
has far greater
opportunity of not
being selected by a
predator than when
swimming alone

10. Electrons In Metals Move Together Because:
The electrons form
their strength by
creating their own
electric field. They
all become stronger

11. Electrons In Plasma Move Together Because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94tReSbyPYc

12. Electrons In Metals Move Together Because:
The electrons form
their strength by
creating their own
electric field. They
all become stronger

13. hat Makes Herding Cats Prefer not to Herd
Together Because:
The self-interest by
herding alone is greater
than herding with other
cats.
If a cat captures a mouse
it prefers to eat it all by
itself.
Besides cats have versatile
tricks to for self-protection

14. Teams Act as Herding Cats Prefer not to
Herd Together Because:
The self-interest of every
team member
overwhelms teaming with
others

15. A Telling Story
A rich man promised his favorite team to give a
fatty bonus for each player who scores a goal in
a derby soccer match. By doing so, the rich
man made every player’s self-interest greater
than the team’s interest to win the game. This
resulted in the team playing as herding cats
with no cohesion among the players or keeping
to their role. The defense players played more
attacking roles than their defending roles
because of their greed to score. This resulted in
a huge loss for the team

16. If Self-Interest prevails then:
We notice the herding-cats behavior
How then to streamline teams to work together?

17. By Streamlining their Negative attitudes:
Make the negative differences generate a current-like
that benefits every team member and make her/him
see a greater interest in working in coherence rather
than herding alone.

18. By Streamlining their Negative attitudes:
Like electrons in an atom moving within defined orbitals.
The further the differences are from the core (nucleus), the
easier they move.
That is to say creative approaches to make the differences
a source of power for all team members to work together.
It is NOT only leveraging the benefits; it is also streamlining
them to produce power fron this process

19. Benefits Shall always Come with
Undesirable Effects:
Inhaling oxygen more than a limit
may lead to the presence of
insufficient amount of carbon
dioxide.
Shortage of carbon dioxide (which
we view (negatively) harms our
bodies in ten different ways

20. Benefits Shall always Come with
Undesirable Effects:
Same with consuming food without
excretion and the terrible side
effects this has on our bodies

21. We Nee to Accept Negative Effects, but more
to turn them to our advantage
Polarized thinking or black and white thinking is
an irrational thinking characterized by the “all
or nothing” principle. People with this
unrealistic expectation do not see gray areas in
most situations; they think in terms of
this OR this rather than this AND this. I
discussed this issue in derail in my presentation
Separation Thinking.

22. We Nee to Accept Negative Effects, but more
to turn them to our advantage
This is why I find the polarity thinking© map
that Barry Johnson pioneered is of great
value. It encourages us to think of the benefits
and costs of eating, of breathing or any polar
situation we find ourselves

23. I am suggesting here new model for Polarity
Thinking Mapping

24. The Emerging Role of Leaders

25. The Emerging Challenges for Leaders
In complex systems, the total sum of efforts by
individuals collectively is greater than the sum
of the individual efforts if workers make their
efforts individually.
Unfortunately, the total sum of teams working
together is often less than the sum of their
efforts if every worker works individually. We
need a charging purpose to streamline the
efforts of teams and groups.