Paradoxical
Leadership today is a paradox. Literally. The latest neuroscience suggests that the best leaders are those who can rapidly switch between paradoxical styles – such as directive or participative, rational or emotional, structured or innovative. This is the finding of decades of research by Prof. Steven Poelmans, who was inaugurated yesterday as the Melexis endowed chair at AMS. These different leadership modes use different parts of the brain – and switching between them is extremely demanding in terms of neural processing capacity. But paradoxical leadership also releases tremendous creative energy for solving ‘wicked’ problems.
— Wayne Visser
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