LEADING IN TIMES OF PARADOXES
Increasingly, leading has to do with dealing with irresolvable tensions that so often persist over time. It is not so much a matter of reaching a compromise between two opposing goals, maximizing gains, or reducing risks. The real challenges of leadership are more like a balancing act in the midst of opposites that calls for sustaining over time alternatives that are both interdependent and contradictory. How can we achieve both pressing short-term goals without sacrificing the long-term? How can we be innovative and bold in the search for alternatives - departing from what has made us successful - and at the same time be guided by the desire to improve efficiency - leveraging in what we are really good at? These are only some of the lasting paradoxes leaders face daily. In this session, we will explore the most pressing paradoxes of leadership and how to navigate them.
The discussion will focus on the following:
1. To understand how to structure our thinking and effectively reconcile dilemmas in our lives and at work.
2. To identify effective responses to seemingly contradictory agendas.
3. To understand emotions, build personal resilience, and communicate better in these situations.
4. To explore how to create a culture that can address tensions and flourish in them.
Location:
HEC PARIS IN QATAR, MSHEIREB DOWNTOWN, 2nd floor or online through the link that you will receive upon registration.
Date:
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
(Registration starts at 5:30 PM)
* For in-person attendance, refreshments & networking opportunities will be available
Prof. Tomas' research focuses on how groups and organizations can mobilize and translate knowledge from other fields to address complex business, scientific and/or societal challenges.
His methodological approach is marked by the extensive use of in-depth qualitative and mix-method approaches, while his research contributes to organizational sociology and innovation in complex fields. His early work has focused on healthcare contexts, examining the nature of boundaries and mechanisms that influence knowledge sharing and translation on clinical teams and innovation projects, and the institutional and policy landscapes that affect them. His ongoing work has expanded to encompass complex business and social problems, exploring how solutions originated in diverse contexts can be successfully translated and embedded into new practices and ways of organizing to tackle such challenges.
Tomas is a regular speaker at academic and practitioner conferences and delivers executive education programs for leading companies in a variety of industries. His research is published in leading academic journals - such as Organization Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Social Science & Medicine, International Journal of Innovation Management, among others - and in academic and professional handbooks. He currently serves on the editorial board of Discover Health Systems Journal.
Tomas is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) and holds a visiting position at IAE Business School (Argentina) and RWTH Aachen Business School (Germany). He completed a Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Science at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Professor Tomas Farchi
Professor in Organizational Behavior at HEC Paris in Qatar
