‘How To Make Complexity An Advantage’

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Change and stability can work together. As a leader, it is your job to make it work.

First learn to play around with and balance your own personal polarities before focusing on the polarities around you and in your organization.’

‘Whatever choice you make when coping with a polarity, remember to be observant, choose consciously, and be aware of what effects may be.’

‘Don’t be tempted to go directly for a compromise or synthesis. Have the courage to explore both poles in their extreme and purest forms.’

‘We are not capable of managing and balancing at will all polarities within ourselves, but what we can do is consciously observe and understand what is happening inside of us from the position of a neutral observer.’

Make explicit both your personal polarities and those of your organization and open up dialogue.’

People best learn to effectively work with polarities in their daily work practice, stimulated by examples, dialogue, and dedicated space and time.’

Make sure that all structures remain flexible and do not become rigid. Make silo formation a standard agenda item.’

Always link the individual parts of the organization to the organization as a whole. Ensure that there is a good balance between departmental goals and organizational goals.’

Establish and maintain an ongoing qualitative exchange and dialogue process about nonmeasurable goals.’

Don’t throw away everything old to replace it with something new but enrich the old with the new.’

‘Every movement evokes its countermovement.’

Source:

Ivo Brughmans (2023). Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage

How Great Leaders Communicate

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Whether you are in a leadership position or not, if you want to win, connecting with other people is the only way to get there.

In her book Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Stratrgically to Coach, Inspire, and Get things Done, Dianna Booher writes, ‘Effective communicators know that their body language and behavior trump their words.’

Strong communicators trade on trust. It’s their currency.’

‘Strategic thinkers use leading questions to advance a discussion and their cause.’

‘Nothing starts you on the road to recovering trust like admitting to your troops your lapse in judgment.’

Words are never the whole story.’

‘Getting upset boosts your blood pressure; laughing and a lighthearted culture boosts your productivity and your influence.’

‘With the pressures of leadership, you have a choice- to get upset or to get a laugh.’

‘Nothing makes leaders look more capable than handling tough questions with credibility and ease.’

Your document should not reflect everything you know about a subject. It should reflect everything you think significant.’

‘As with race cars, what’s ‘under the hood’ drives a meeting’s overall success.’

If you show up physically, be present mentally.

Source:

Dianna Booher (2017). Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done