Paradoxical Leadership to Enable Strategic Agility
基于五家企业的数据，探讨了矛盾领导力如何帮助管理者应对战略敏捷性中的稳定与灵活、承诺与变革等对立需求，提出有效管理张力的领导实践。
Strategic agility evokes contradictions, such as stability-flexibility, commitment-change, and established routines-novel approaches. These competing demands pose challenges that require paradoxical leadership—practices seeking creative, both/and solutions that can enable fast-paced, adaptable decision making. Why is managing paradox critical to strategic agility? And which practices enable leaders to effectively manage tensions? This article describes the paradoxical nature of strategic agility. Drawing from data from five firms, Astro Studios, Digital Divide Data, IBM Global Services Canada, Lego, and Unilever, it proposes leadership practices to effectively respond to these challenges.