How Ford Motors applies Paradoxical Thinking?

Abstract

The paper attempts the significance of paradoxical thinking in management and leadership. The paper discusses the rational of paradoxical thinking and compares all three ways of paradoxical thinking. The paper discusses the implementation of paradoxical thinking in management and leadership as well as its implication in an individual's life. The paper discusses the example of Ford motors with respect to their implementation of paradoxical thinking in their management and leadership areas. The paper also discusses how one could approach paradoxical way of thinking and adopt it in his perception. In the end paper discusses the significance of paradoxical thinking as one of the fundamental skills of intelligence; also it summarizes the utilization of paradoxical thinking in organization.

Table of content

Abstractii

Introduction1

Compare and contrast2

Discussion2

Ford motors practicing paradoxical thinking2

Leadership styles of Ford Motor Company3

Paradoxical thinking is essential or not5

Uniqueness of personal paradox6

Paradoxical thinking is one of eight skills related to intelligence7

Utilization of paradoxical thinking in organization8

Competing Value Framework (CVF)10

Conclusion12

References14

How Ford Motors applies Paradoxical Thinking?

Introduction

In today's confounded era of Globalization this word paradox has a great impact in any management process. It kept bringing changes in the mind set of every individual day by day. Here, the word paradox meaning a statement that leads to confutation when inspected may prove to be well founded or true. Similarly, when this paradoxical thinking approaches management and leadership it becomes a complex challenge for every organization to cater with this approach. Also, it brings flexibility in the environment of the organizational leadership which is a want of every manager. This art of, managing and leading organization lies in snuggling of these disagreeing forces, rather than picking between them. Therefore, organizational managers and leaders must retrain to cater with these paradoxes through a paradoxical thinking mind set; one that follows an optimistic approach rather slitting apart and differentiating. Other than this common paradox life in organizations, the mind set rebels against the actual contradiction. In addition, such abilities are being valued in corporate cultures traditionally.

People usually think in a different way, and they develop different attitudes and behaviors, paradox challenges can meet with rational approaches that maintain a balance in between opposite forces. Managers who are effective create after opportunities for new alternatives, and from these approaches a powerful combination could emerge. This is how an organization can get benefits from the managers having paradoxical approaches. Therefore, effective managers prefer facing paradox challenges rather avoiding it, and they ultimately know how to handle with the sheer tension of discordant options and bringing it to problem solving phase.

Compare and contrast

Managers should know how to compare his paradox approach in an appropriate way. This paradox thinking may take him to take a final decision making, he must get to know whether he should pick both, in a row or he can think and find the answers to his ifs and buts in contradiction of those thoughts. For that, he must brainstorm the question: “how two incompatible ideas can be true?”

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