Paradoxes also can occur in the nature of commands, such as the manager who tells you “don’t regard everything I say as an order, and that’s an order,” or the parent who tells the child “I’ve told you a million time, don’t exaggerate!” to be told that all generalizations about organizations are incorrect also would appear to be paradoxical, although perhaps true (another paradox). The need for more employee creativity has become apparent to many organizations. In response, they have ordered employees to “be creative” which, as you probably