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Paradoxical Leadership Ivo Brughmans

Paradoxical Leadership By Ivo Brughmans

Paradoxical Leadership by Ivo Brughmans


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

Paradoxical Leadership Summary

Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage by Ivo Brughmans

On a daily basis, leaders, managers, and professionals alike have to deal with tensions caused by differing and even opposite approaches. We often feel the need to make a fundamental choice between either one or the other for the sake of clarity. Using practical methodology and an extensive toolkit, Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to transform divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzing polarization into a constructive dialogue. Ivo Brughmans focuses on solutions that include both sides of the coin and reconcile conflicting views. He works out the fundamental principles of a paradoxical perspective and explains how to apply them to yourself as a person and a professional, how to integrate them into your leadership style, how to implement them in your team and organization, and how to conduct an effective dialogue on polarizing issues. Developing this paradoxical perspective, the book sheds a refreshingly new light on a wide range of fundamental organizational and management challenges, such as strategy development, business design, corporate governance, performance management, change, agility, innovation, diversity, culture transformation, leadership, and talent. Demonstrating how to manage contradictions, tensions, and dilemmas in a productive and inclusive way, Paradoxical Leadership provides the skills, frameworks, and tools necessary to integrate both/and thinking into your working and leadership style.

About Ivo Brughmans

Ivo Brughmans is a philosopher, management consultant, and author of several books. He is a lecturer at a number of leadership academies and management schools, such as University of Amsterdam Academy, AOG School of Management at the University of Groningen, and Avicenna Academy for Leadership.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: In the Lab 1. Polarities and Paradoxes: What Are They and How Do They Work? 1.2 Polarities as the Lifeblood of Adaptive Systems 1.2 How to Engage with Polarities 1.3 How Polarities Work in Organizations and Social Systems 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 Paradoxical Leadership and Both/And Thinking on the Rise 3.3 The Fundamentals of Both/And Thinking 3.4 Principles of Practice 4. How to Balance between Opposite Poles? 4.1 Coping with Our Own Polarities 4.2 Working with the Polarities of Our Organization Part II: At Work 5. Setting the Strategic Direction and Steering the Business 5.1 Staying on Course and Strategic Agility 5.2 Specializing and Working Together in One Value Chain 5.3 Giving Direction to an Organization without Putting It in a Straitjacket 5.4 The Obsession to Measure Everything and the Limitations of Kips 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 the Organization Come Together 7.1 The Power of What Is Hidden in the Shadows 7.2 How Diversity Can Help Us 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 in Your Team and Organization 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 Where Do We Go from Here? Back to the Basics Appendix: List of Common Polarities Index

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NGR9781487507633
9781487507633
1487507631
Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage by Ivo Brughmans
New
Hardback
University of Toronto Press
2023-04-25
328
N/A
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