The Stockdale Paradox is named after admiral Jim Stockdale, who was a United States military officer held captive for eight years during the Vietnam War.

Then comes the paradox: While Stockdale had remarkable faith in the unknowable, he noted that it was always the most optimistic of his prisonmates who failed to make it out of there alive.

And therein lies the Stockdale Paradox. A few years ago, I said: To many firms, so much change and uncertainty may feel like a bit of a crisis, while others see it as more of an opportunity.

The Stockdale Paradox can be summed up as “have faith but confront reality.” A corollary here is to embrace some form of stoicism.

That is the Stockdale Paradox – surviving what life throws our way requires maintaining the sometimes-contradictory attitudes of patience, hope and optimism on the one hand and realism and ...

The Stockdale Approach One answer that we explored together features Admiral James Stockdale. His approach to being a long-term prisoner of war was grounded in a first-century crippled-Roman ...

The Stockdale Paradox While there are many proven techniques and strategies for utilizing the power of both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ thinking, the Stockdale Paradox provides an accessible and ...

The Stockdale paradox, named for Admiral James Stockdale, highlights the paradox of hoping for the best, but realistically expecting complications. The purely hopeful will believe that everything ...

What will take in this tumultuous marketplace for law firms not only to go from good to great, but simply survive the changes before us?

For the second earnings call in a year, Saga Communications CEO Chris Forgy invoked the Stockdale Paradox as the broadcaster doubles down on its “Blended” digital transformation strategy while ...