Paradoxical leadership means that enterprise managers use a series of leadership behaviors related to competition and cooperation to guide the healthy competition among organization members. This kind of leadership breaks through the limitation of "two choices" from the perspective of contingency, and moves to "do both". In the field of management, some scholars have analyzed the concept, measurement methods, variables and mechanisms of paradoxical leadership. Previous studies on the impact of paradoxical leadership on team innovation, excavate the mechanism and results of paradoxical leadership on team innovation is analyzed and sort out, and future studies is looked forward.