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How well do you manage paradox in your goals? How often do you feel pressed to accomplish more than time allows? Does senior management expect you to accomplish major goals (e.g., meet a project deadline) and then drop other “little” tasks on you (e.g., provide information for a report or serve . . . → Read More: Lead by Managing Paradox in Your Goals As I recently drove from Yale to a friend’s home in CT, my mind wandered to conversation I had with a colleague. She had asked me a wonderful and provocative question: How is your leadership approach (eXpansive Leadership Model – XLM) better than all the others? After all, there are many leadership models and . . . → Read More: “How Is Your Leadership Approach Better?”  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Apply the XLM, Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, Leadership, Leading managing paradox, Managing paradox, XLM The Super Bowl was SUPER! But I have to admit it made me think of… cycling and the Tour de France. I’m serious. The Tour de France is the Super Bowl of professional cycling, where 180 of the world’s best cyclists race an average of 100 miles per day for 21 days. To win . . . → Read More: Leadership Lessons from the Super Bowl and… Lance? Washington’s leadership lesson reminds us that the whitewater work environment requires leaders to manage “paradoxical tensions.” . . . → Read More: Ouch! Leaders Who Snap When They Should S-t-r-e-t-c-h 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, Leading managing paradox, Managing paradox, Paradox, paradoxical, paradoxical leadership The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Dimensions of Leadership As complicated and difficult as your job as a leader is (at work or home), it . . . → Read More: Conquering Your Paradoxical Leadership Challenges with the eXpansive Leadership Model 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Leader, Leadership, Leading managing paradox, Management, Managing paradox, XLM |
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