Leader ~ Paradox

A leader should understand that their lives are bathed in irony, They are surrounded by paradox. Richard Farson (1997) author of the book, Management of the Absurd: The paradoxes of Leadership, once suggested, that if leaders are solving problems, there was something wrong in the their organizations. Every problem that has a solution should be solved lower in the organization. The person on top is dealing with paradoxes that have no solution. Their job is to wrestle with dilemmas that have no clear outcomes.

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