Today's managers and leaders are faced with paralyzing challenges. There is never enough time or resources to get everything accomplished, and every organization is constantly being pulled in multiple directions. Every decision has consequences―some immediate, some longer-term. Add to these challenges the politics of corporate culture, where issues of power, influence, and authority are constantly in play. Whether you are a CEO, business owner, department head, team leader, or in any other managerial position, you need to learn how to navigate these treacherous shoals―to be flexible and decisive, supportive and commanding, tactical and strategic. In this fascinating analysis of business life, James Lucas identifies over a dozen fundamental paradoxes of leadership and demonstrates how the greatest leaders embrace, rather than avoid, them. From exercise authority and share power to encourage cooperation and encourage conflict, Lucas shows readers how to pursue seemingly incompatible goals simultaneously and thrive in a world of ambiguity. Whether you are formally in charge or find yourself in a position of de facto influence, this book will open your mind to new ways of solving problems, overcoming inertia, and turning uncertainty into opportunity. For more information and resources, please visit www.paradoxbasedleadership.com.
Today's leaders are faced with paralyzing challenges. There is never enough of anything to get everything accomplished. Every decision has consequences―some immediate, some longer-term, all serious. Every organization is constantly being pulled in multiple directions, and our frustration can swell as we see value in all of them. One authority instructs us to take charge, while another tells us to empower our employees. We're instructed to challenge our people with high expectations, and to allow for human error; to tightly align our organizations, and to open them organizations up to all possibilities. We face one crippling dilemma after another. Are we going to do A or B? The answer is yes, we're going to do it all. We're going to have high expectations and high tolerance; strong leadership that takes a back seat; crisp alignment with anarchic creativity. Whether you are a CEO, division or department head, team leader, or entrepreneur, you're going to learn how to navigate these treacherous shoals―to be flexible and decisive, supportive and commanding, tactical and strategic. For more information and resources, please visit www.paradoxbasedleadership.com.
Great leaders understand that leadership is a both/and, not an either/or game. In this groundbreaking book, James Lucas demonstrates how to pursue seemingly incompatible goals and thrive in a world of ambiguity. You'll see that, while a paradox seems to require irreconcilable actions, it is only an apparent contradiction. The value comes from seeing through the illusion. You will explore twenty fundamental paradoxes of leadership, culture, talent management, and strategy. You'll learn how to embrace, rather than avoid, these unavoidable paradoxes, examine both sides find practical techniques for avoiding common pitfalls, and ultimately discover creative solutions that reconcile apparently conflicting priorities. Whether you are formally in charge or find yourself in a position of de facto influence anywhere in your organization, this book will open your mind to new ways of thinking and allow you to turn uncertainty into opportunity. You've always sensed that these paradoxes were there. With this book, you'll be able to bring them into the light and make them work for you.

Broaden the Vision and Narrow the Focus: Managing in a World of Paradox

Business & Money

LUCAS, James

Management & Leadership

Praeger

Without these secret agents paving the way, Germany would have found it far more difficult to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland. Kommando details the stunning achievement of Nazi operatives in naval warfare, including suicide pilots, human torpedoes, and the young people of the Werewolf, trained in partisan warfare.

Kommando: German Special Forces of World War II

History

Military

UNKNO

The 2nd SS Division was an elite, highly trained fighting force that saw action in some of World War II's bloodiest battles. Especially in the Eastern front, these often included close-quarter, hand-to-hand combat. Starting with the organization and recruitment of the division and following it throughout the war, the story of this evil but powerful force unfolds through reminiscences by many of the unit's men, along with photographs and other memorabilia.

Cassell Military Classics: Das Reich: The Military Role of the 2nd SS Division

When the Third Reich collapsed, 70 million Germans were left bewildered and terrified, their leaders dead or incarcerated; the victors saw fully for the first time the unbearable legacy of death, atrocity, and destruction left by the Nazis. Here is the view from Hitler's bunker, where news came of his troops surrendering on every front. An extraordinary story of ruin, retribution, sometimes courage and occasional suicide...and the ultimate rise from these ashes of a powerful, democratic republic.

Cassell Military Classics: Last Days of the Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945

Cassell

Kesselring, Manstein, Model, Rommel, and others of lower rank but equal ability: what crucial role did these 15 men play in the Nazi military hierarchy, in strategic planning, and on the battlefield? From the pen of a leading writer on German forces comes a valuable contribution to our study of warfare. By choosing figures who each had an extra dimension, a special quality--administrative skill, motivational ability, tactical awareness, originality of thought--Lucas illuminates the workings of command, control, military structure, and soldiering.

Cassell Military Classics: Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German Machine 1939 -1945

Panzer: The armoured force of the Third Reich (A Macdonald illustrated war study)

COOPER, Matthew

St.Martin's Press

Recounts the activities of special German military units during World War II, including the SD, sabateurs, the Abwehr, the navy K-men, and special suicide units

Kommando

St Martins Pr

Theis book provides very interesting details on subjects rarely addressed on the Russian Front. I loved it. Much has been written about the tanks and infantry, but theis book teaches about the self propelled artillary, the rockets, staying warm, marching, terrain etc! This book is unashamed to detail the bravery, endurance, guile, skill and professionalism of the brave German soldier and his equally brave Russian foe. His writing style is excellent, the chapters and topics are short and sweet.

WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941-1945: THE GERMAN SOLDIER IN RUSSIA

Janeʼs

Alpine Elite: German Mountain Troops

Lucas takes an overall look at das Heer, or the German Army, as it evolved during World War II. In particular, Lucas concentrates on the origins of the German Army in the post-Versailles-Treaty era and its resurgence under the Nazi regime; training and organization during the war years; equipment, vehicles, and weapons; and uniforms, ranks, and insignia. The author also describes the parts played by the Waffen-SS and the airborne arm of the service, the Fallschirmjager. This is truly an authoritative, comprehensive account of a highly effective army.

German Army Handbook 1939-1945

Europe

Sutton Publishing

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