CHAPTER 7

Strategic Leadership and Competitive Advantage

In today’s global marketplace effective leaders address a multitude of strategic issues in order to assist their firms to achieve a sustainable competitive position. Leaders must focus their organizations on providing products and services that enable customers and clients to perform tasks that add value in ways that their competitors cannot match. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the nature of strategic leadership and strategic competitive advantage in creating and sustaining long-term profits for their organizations and their stakeholders.

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