۱٫ Abstract

In the contemporary era, organizations, governments, and families face a phenomenon known as “Poly-crisis”—a state where economic, social, and geopolitical crises occur simultaneously and are deeply intertwined.

Classical management models, often focused on “crisis avoidance” or “bouncing back to the status quo,” lose their efficacy in these conditions.

Inspired by a cinematic allegory in the film Radical (2023) and synthesizing it with Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s theory of “Antifragility,” this paper introduces a novel framework termed “The Donkey Paradox.”

This model argues that in the face of existential pressure, the only path to survival is not static resistance, but the dynamic utilization of the “mass of the crisis” as the “mass for ascension.”

This paper delineates three fundamental principles—”Active Shake-off,” “Ascending Compaction,” and “Dynamic Ascent”—as operational strategies for educational systems, management leadership, and the family institution.