Book description
Today's turbulent business environment requires strategic leadership that is systemic, focused on the future, and oriented toward change. Leaders who can foster greater strategic clarity, make stronger connections between strategy and tactics, and broaden their own and others' perspectives will contribute to the enduring success of their organizations. This collection of sixteen pieces explores the important and fascinating topic of strategic leadership from a number of angles. Readers will come away with newly formed thoughts on what strategic leadership is and how they might develop it in themselves and others.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Strategic Command: Taking the Long View for Organizational Success
- Strategic Aims: Making the Right Moves in Leadership
- Getting It Done: Four Ways to Translate Strategy into Results
- Making Strategy Real: Bringing People Together Toward a Common Cause
- Knowing and Doing: How to Put Learning Where the Work Is
- Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company
- Getting It Together: The Leadership Challenge of Mergers and Acquisitions
- Analyze This: Six Steps to Leveraging People Investments
- Leading Together: Complex Challenges Require a New Approach
- Inside Out: Transforming Your Leadership Culture
- Ending the Board Game: New Leadership Solutions for Companies
- Battles and Beliefs: Rethinking the Role of Today’s Leaders
- Being Responsible: Boards Are Reexamining the Bottom Line
- Rising to the Challenge: How to Develop Responsible Leaders
- Capital Ideas: Enhancing the Power of Human Assets
- Good Choices: Making Better Decisions by Knowing How Best to Decide
- About the Contributors
Product information
- Title: The Leadership in Action Series: On Strategic Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): Center for Creative Leadership
- ISBN: 9781604917482
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