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Addressing Grand Challenges’ Paradoxes: Leadership Skills to Manage Inconsistencies
Author(s) -
Schad Jonathan,
Smith Wendy K.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of leadership studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1935-262X
pISSN - 1935-2611
DOI - 10.1002/jls.21609
Subject(s) - grand challenges , consistency (knowledge bases) , face (sociological concept) , public relations , political science , sociology , management science , engineering ethics , computer science , economics , social science , artificial intelligence , law , engineering
Our world increasingly presents grand challenges, such as climate change, poverty, and digitalization. Their inherent complexity creates paradoxical tensions that leaders need to respond to in addressing these challenges. Yet, these tensions also point to the limits of traditional leadership models. While traditional models encourage leaders to make tough choices in the face of competing demands and maintain consistency in these choices, addressing grand challenges requires future leadership to engage competing demands simultaneously. The current article outlines leadership skills to address these competing demands in a “consistently inconsistent” way.