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Taylor & Francis Getting Unstuck Using Leadership Paradox to Execute with Confidence 2013 Edition by Ralph Jacobson
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. Table of contents :- What's a Paradox? Why It's Relevant!What Am I/Are We Supposed to Do?It's Not Really a ProblemIs This a Problem or a Paradox?Whatever Happened to Right and Wrong?The Paradox Training AdvantageOrganization Paradoxes: Understanding Resistance to ChangeIt Shouldn't Be This HardWhat May Not Help?Common Organization ParadoxesOrganization Paradox ExamplesThe Drama of the Unbalanced ParadoxYour Leadership RoleHow Can You Spot a Strategic Paradox?Strategic Paradoxes: How to Create Sustainable GrowthStructural Paradoxes: How to Lower the SilosOverviewIt's a Battle in HereHow to Overcome Structural ParadoxesAdditional Options to Creating More Effective StructuresHackathon: Example of an EmergingOrganization StructurePractical ApplicationFunctional/Division Paradoxes: Why Are We Fighting with Each OtherThe IssueThe Work of Senior Leadership: Balance the Functional SilosHow to Spot a Functional ParadoxRole Paradox: Damned If You Do...Damned If You Don'tThe Paradox of Time: The Struggle to Focus on the ImportantThe Secret to Improving Productivity AND Employee EngagementAchieving the BalanceLiving a More Powerful LifeThe Paradox of TeamLeader Paradoxes: Conflicting Roles/Conflicting AdvicePersonal Leader ParadoxesParadoxical Commandments of LeadershipThe Paradoxes of Making DecisionsThe Limitations of JudgmentAddressing Decision-Making ParadoxesThe Paradoxes of Building a Corporate CultureLeading Organization Cultural Change: The DramaThe Best Leadership ModelPersonal Paradox: Addressing Life's Universal ChallengesUniversal Human ParadoxesThe Polarity Map (TM) When Interests and Values CollideClosing Thoughts on Personal ParadoxAddressing Humanity's Most Pressing ChallengesWhat We ExperienceAntibiotics in Agriculture Processed as ParadoxThe Healthcare ParadoxBreaking Down the SilosIn ConclusionThe Right Moves: Taking ActionTaking Individual Action to Balance Your MostCritical ParadoxesMoving from Thinking to ActionLeadership Actions to Balance ParadoxTimeTaking Leadership ActionThe Organization Path to Balancing Paradox: An ExampleBibliographyAppendix: Three Roles That Leaders PlayInstructionsIndex