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The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership
Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace
15min reading time
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21min listening time
About the Summary
The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership unpacks the fresh strategies and new mindset required of a next-generation leader today. Author Dr. Tim Elmore helps leaders of all kinds navigate increasingly complex, rapidly changing environments, as well as manage teams that bring a range of new demands and expectations to the workplace that haven’t been seen even one generation prior. This summary can equip leaders to inspire team members in a way a paycheck never could. Become a next-generation leader—rich in emotional and social intelligence and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results—by mastering the eight status quo-shattering paradoxes.
In This Summary, You Will Learn:
- Why today’s team members require different qualities than they did even in the recent past.
- The eight key paradoxes and strategies for how to practice them.
- Inspiring stories of historic and modern-day leaders who lived the eight paradoxes.
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