Getting Unstuck : using Leadership Paradox to execute with confidence / Ralph Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Ralph, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management.

Management--Technological innovations.

Management.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Humans are naturally wired to solve problems. Implement the right solutions and the problems generally go away. Paradoxes are quite different. They consist of opposites that do not appear to be able to coexist, but must. Most of the issues that keep organizations from achieving strategic success are not problems, they are paradoxes. Practical approaches to address our most important paradoxes do exist. By reading this book you will learn how to address the paradoxes commonly encountered in organizations and in life. Getting Unstuck: Using Leadership to Execute Paradoxes with Confidence will teach you how to balance key paradoxes to achieve greater long-term growth and enhanced sustainability than those who rely on financial data and problem solving methods alone. It addresses the issues that are the most troublesome to people and the organizations they work for. Describing how to think and work more strategically, the book introduces the language and tools you need to share innovative approaches to dilemmas within your organization and to develop better working relationships, both internally and externally. It provides a practical and powerful platform to help you develop new possibilities and achieve your strategic objectives. You will learn how to see conflict with a fresh set of eyes, how to redefine your roles, and how to become more effective professionally and personally. If you have experienced trouble implementing strategic objectives, difficulties getting people from different parts of your organization to work together; if you want to achieve a higher level of success, if you feel stuck, then read this book. Filled with examples of real-world paradoxes, it supplies valuable insights into the root causes of workplace conflicts to help you execute change with greater confidence and effectiveness.

Contents:

chapter 2 What’s a Paradox? Why It’s Relevant!

chapter 3 Role Paradox: Damned If You Do…Damned If You Don’t

chapter 4 Leader Paradoxes: Conf licting Roles/Conf licting Advice

chapter 5 Personal Paradox: Addressing Life’s Universal Challenges

chapter 6 Addressing Humanity’s Most Pressing Challenges

chapter 7 The Right Moves: Taking Action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040082690

1040082696

9780429255083

042925508X

9781466596436

1466596430

9781628707588

1628707585

OCLC:

883134613