Paradoxical Leadership

"Paradoxical Leadership is a valued resource, offering tools to navigate tensions that pervade our organizations, work, and lives. Tensions offer creative friction that can empower and free but also paralyze and constrain. Ivo Brughmans demonstrates through extensive research and practice the means to turn our challenges into opportunities."

Marianne Lewis, Author of Both/And Thinking and Professor and Dean of the Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati

"A brilliant book! Our world needs more paradoxical leadership to solve our greatest problems, and Paradoxical Leadership is the perfect traveling companion and guide. Ivo Brughmans shows both the novice and experienced paradoxical thinker the tools to map the terrain of both/and thinking. We all need to engage with the ideas and with Brughmans' book to help us be more creative and generative thinkers by engaging the complexity in our lives and our world ."

Wendy K. Smith, Author of Both/And Thinking and Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management, University of Delaware.

"Ivo Brughmans has done a great job of integrating thorough research with hard-earned wisdom from years of working with clients, learning how to convert natural tensions within polarities into something useful for each and all of us. Starting with our own individual tensions and expanding to our most critical global issues, this book is both immediately practical and long-term visionary."

Barry Johnson, Author of Making a Difference by Leveraging Polarity Paradox or Dilemma

"In his book Paradoxical Leadership, Ivo Brughmans has made it very clear that approaching dilemmas and paradoxes is one of the most important skills that a leader needs to master. It is one of the best books I’ve read on this timely subject. In short: A must-read."

Fons Trompenaars, Author of the bestselling Riding the Waves of Culture, and Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam

"Ivo Brughmans’s book discusses how leadership that embraces a paradoxical perspective is needed for our modern civic and organizational lives to transcend a sense of paralysis and to assume better kinds of responsibility. May future leaders think, act, and morally grow towards working within this possibility!"

Kleio Akrivou, Professor of Business Ethics and Sustainability and Director of the Centre for Business Ethics and Sustainability, Henley Business School, University of Reading

‘’In my practice I see that the ability to effectively deal with tensions and paradoxes has become a key differentiator for excellence in leadership. With this book Ivo Brughmans provides a unique guide to how to bring this into daily practice. Paradoxical Leadership invites you to reflect on yourself and your own fundamental assumptions, while providing a wealth of practical methods, tools, and skills to support you on your leadership journey.’’

Karsten De Clerck, Senior Partner at Egon Zehnder and Chairman of the Board at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

"Paradoxical Leadership offers an inspirational and thought-provoking reading for leaders, and leadership/MBA students. This book contains both fresh perspectives and practical guidance on handling the paradoxical nature of our complex world, be it in a profit or non-profit context, or a leader or professional role. Ivo Brughmans’s book adds great value for everyone who wants to learn how to come to grips with conflicting goals and opposing views."

Dr. Uwe Napiersky, Associate Professor for Business Psychology, Aston Business School, University, Birmingham

"In this deeply divided and fragmented time, recognizing paradoxes and embracing ambiguity is of existential importance. This requires a holistic perspective and the ability to connect polarities, to transform ‘either/or’ into ‘both/and.’ This book fulfils both, making it a very valuable and useful tool for the future."

Christine Boland, Trend analyst, brand purpose specialist, and keynote speaker

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