8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility By Yeo Chuen Chuen

8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility: How to Lead and Inspire in the Real World by Yeo Chuen Chuen

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



How easy IS IT to change ? It is always difficult, and often paradoxical. You have an idea to start a business in your field but you do not want to quit your regular job and because you do not want to lose that regular income that pays your bills.

The book talks about solving the various paradoxes, 8 to be precise, that a leader may face at workplace or in life.

It provides a model called Re4 which is - Reconstruct, Refresh, Renew and Rebuild to navigate through all these paradoxes.

Here, Reconstruct is about finding the truth in any problem. This can be different from what people perceived initially. and, Refresh is about cleaning up the dirt, the mess that was hiding the truth. It can be prejudices, it can be ineffective rules etc.

And, The Third Re is Renew. Renew is the change that you want to make. It can be a change in behavior you want or you want a change in attitude and so on. and Rebuild is about the new skills and actions needed to implement that change. So it can involve training, new processes etc.

Overall, the book is good. the book is worth reading the way it has discussed the paradoxes. I rate this book 3/5.

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