What do you do about problems that can't be solved/ It's not that you can't solve them or that you haven't found the person who can solve them, some problems simply can't be solved. They must be managed instead. The best source of help and information I've found on unsolvable problems is the book Polarity Management - Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems by Barry Johnson. The book includes valuable insights about spotting and managing unsolvable problems. He calls these polarities: "sets of opposites which can't function well independently." Within each pole, or opposite force, are upsides and downsides - things we would want to keep and things that we could live without. So often we do not get to choose one or the other - in order to keep the good aspects of a force we must live with the bad. To live with the bad, we must manage the forces in action. We do not do that by eliminating either side. We manage both sides. We make pea...