Navigating Leadership Paradox. Engaging Paradoxical Thinking in Practice
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Abstract
Paradox scholarship has equipped us with a rich vocabulary to understand organizational life’s persistent, contradictory, and interdependent tensions.With strong theoretical foundations, there is no shortage of frameworks explainingwhy these tensionsmatter. But what if you already understand the theory and still do not knowhowto work with paradox in practice, in the classroom, during a tense team discussion, or in the midst of a critical decision where trade-offs cannot wait?What if you are eager to teach, lead, and research by harnessing the power of contradictions, yet the concepts remain elusive—insightful in theory but challenging to translate into action? […]
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