Paradoxes of Power and Leadership

Cunha, MPE; Clegg, SR; Rego, A; Berti, M

Paradoxes of Power and Leadership

Cunha, MPE Clegg, SR Rego, A Berti, M

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 2021, pp. 1-248
Issue Date:: 2021-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cunha, MPE
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, SR
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A
dc.contributor.author	Berti, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0519-8824
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-10T07:43:03Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-10T07:43:03Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07-01
dc.identifier.citation	2021, pp. 1-248
dc.identifier.isbn	1138482846
dc.identifier.isbn	9781138482845
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150088
dc.description.abstract	Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers derail? Why do organizations create and reinforce rules that manifestly damage both them and those that they employ, serve and sustain? Leadership is a much-discussed but ill-defined idea in business and management circles. Analysing and understanding the skills and behaviours exhibited in leadership practice reveal that leaders exhibit paradoxical activities that challenge our understanding of organizations. In this text, the authors identify leadership behaviours that compete towards business equilibrium: selfish versus selfless, distance versus proximity, consistency versus individuality, enforcing professional standards versus flexibility and control versus autonomy. These paradoxical dilemmas require a reflexive and analytical approach to a subject that is tricky to define. The book explores the paradoxes of power and leadership not as a panacea for solving organizational problems but as a lens through which leadership and power are seen as an exercise in dynamic balance. Read this book as an invitation to the paradoxes of power and leadership that frame organizational life today. Be prepared to find surprises – and some counterintuitive arguments. Providing a thought-provoking guide to the traits and skills that will help readers to understand and navigate paradoxical leadership behaviour, this reflexive book will be a useful reading for students and scholars of business, management and psychology globally.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Routledge
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dc.title	Paradoxes of Power and Leadership
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
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Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers derail? Why do organizations create and reinforce rules that manifestly damage both them and those that they employ, serve and sustain? Leadership is a much-discussed but ill-defined idea in business and management circles. Analysing and understanding the skills and behaviours exhibited in leadership practice reveal that leaders exhibit paradoxical activities that challenge our understanding of organizations. In this text, the authors identify leadership behaviours that compete towards business equilibrium: selfish versus selfless, distance versus proximity, consistency versus individuality, enforcing professional standards versus flexibility and control versus autonomy. These paradoxical dilemmas require a reflexive and analytical approach to a subject that is tricky to define. The book explores the paradoxes of power and leadership not as a panacea for solving organizational problems but as a lens through which leadership and power are seen as an exercise in dynamic balance. Read this book as an invitation to the paradoxes of power and leadership that frame organizational life today. Be prepared to find surprises – and some counterintuitive arguments. Providing a thought-provoking guide to the traits and skills that will help readers to understand and navigate paradoxical leadership behaviour, this reflexive book will be a useful reading for students and scholars of business, management and psychology globally.

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