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Today's interconnected and complex security environment requires individuals and organizations that can think through and adapt to unforeseen and rapidly evolving situations. Senior military leaders, foremost General Martin Dempsey former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have repeatedly emphasized the need for greater innovation and adaptation across the US Defense Department. Paradox theory and polarity management are respectively an intellectual and an organizational change management framework. These frameworks offer better conceptual understanding of issues and organizational adaptations than current creative thinking and Leading Change-type models.