Paradoxical Leadership : How to Make Complexity an Advantage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brughmans, Ivo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Management.

Organization.

Paradox.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Summary:

Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to use tensions between seemingly contradictory perspectives as a driver for sustainable success and innovation.

Contents:

Cover

Praise for Paradoxical Leadership

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: In the Lab

1 Polarities and Paradoxes: What Are They and How Do They Work?

1.1 Polarities Are the Lifeblood of Adaptive Systems

1.2 Polarities in Our Minds

1.3 How to Engage with Polarities

1.4 How Polarities Work in Organizations and Social Systems

1.5 Are Polarities Inherent or Socially Constructed

2 The Limitations of Either/Or Thinking

2.1 Various Forms of Either/Or Thinking

2.2 Why Is Either/Or Thinking So Attractive?

2.3 Why Doesn't the Either/Or Approach Work?

2.4 The Challenge

3 Thinking from a Both/And Perspective

3.1 Why Is a Paradigm Shift Necessary and Inevitable?

3.2 The Rise of Paradoxical Leadership and Both/And Thinking

3.3 The Fundamentals of Both/And Thinking

3.4 Principles of Practice

4 How to Balance between Opposite Poles

4.1 Handling Your Own Polarities

4.2 Working with the Polarities of Your Organization

Part 2: At Work

5 Setting the Strategic Direction and Steering the Business

5.1 Strategic Agility

5.2 Specializing while Working Together

5.3 Directing an Organization without Putting It in a Straitjacket

5.4 The Obsession with Measurement and the Limitations of KPIs

6 Change

6.1 Change and Continuity: The Old and the New

6.2 Adaptability, Versatility, and Identity

6.3 Polarization and Tribal Wars

6.4 Paradoxical Interventions: Doing the Opposite to What We Want to Achieve

7 Where People and Organizations Come Together

7.1 The Power of What Is Hidden in the Shadows

7.2 How Diversity Can Help Achieve Better Results

7.3 Creativity and Innovation: A Winding Road

8 Conducting the Paradoxical Dialogue

8.1 The Inner Compass

8.2 How to Shape the Paradoxical Dialogue.

8.3 Caught in the Middle: Reconciling Different Worlds

9 Paradoxically Competent

9.1 The Paradoxically Competent Professional and Manager

9.2 The Paradoxical Skill Set

9.3 The Paradoxically Competent Organization

Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Back to the Basics

Appendix A: List of Common Polarities

Appendix B: Paradoxical Organization Scan

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4875-3664-X

1-4875-3663-1

OCLC:

1351504936