Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage

Paradoxical Leadership is a book that helps leaders, managers, and professionals deal with tensions caused by differing and opposite approaches by transforming divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzing polarization into a constructive dialogue. It provides the skills, frameworks, and tools necessary to integrate both/and thinking into working and leadership styles.

Format: Hardback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2023
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Leaders, managers, and professionals alike face tensions daily due to differing and often opposing approaches. We often feel the urge to choose one or the other for clarity. In Paradoxical Leadership, Ivo Brughmans offers a practical methodology and an extensive toolkit to transform divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzing polarization into constructive dialogue.

Ivo Brughmans emphasizes solutions that encompass both sides of the coin and reconcile conflicting views. He delves into the fundamental principles of a paradoxical perspective and explains how to apply them personally and professionally, integrate them into leadership styles, implement them within teams and organizations, and engage in effective dialogues on polarizing issues.

By developing this paradoxical perspective, the book sheds new light on a wide range of fundamental organizational and management challenges, including strategy development, business design, corporate governance, performance management, change, agility, innovation, diversity, culture transformation, leadership, and talent. It demonstrates how to manage contradictions, tensions, and dilemmas productively and inclusively, providing the skills, frameworks, and tools to integrate both/and thinking into working and leadership styles.

Paradoxical Leadership is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to navigate complex challenges and foster positive change in their organizations and teams.

Weight: 658g
Dimension: 160 x 238 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487507633