A strategic leader is essentially the leader of any organization and someone who has to steer the company in times of change, whilst motivating and inspiring their team.Strategic Leadership from the renowned leadership expert John Adair encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, transferable skills and the art of inspiring others. It then describes the role itself and broad functions of that role such as building and maintaining a team, achieving a common task and motivating and developing the individual. It moves on to assess the skills you need to be effective, and the seven generic functions that make up the role of strategic leader which include providing direction, strategic thinking and planning, building partnerships and developing tomorrow's leaders. Full of checklists, summaries and historical examples, Strategic Leadership will encourage you to ask the right questions whilst defining the role and skills of a strategic leader.
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: The role; Chapter - 01: Strategic leadership; Chapter - 02: The generic role of leader; Chapter - 03: Levels of leadership; Section - TWO: The seven functions; Chapter - 04: Giving direction; Chapter - 05: Strategic thinking and planning; Chapter - 06: Making it happen; Chapter - 07: Relating the parts to the whole; Chapter - 08: Building partnerships; Chapter - 09: Releasing the corporate spirit; Chapter - 10: Developing today's and tomorrow's leaders
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