Strategy Driven Leadership

Author : Michael A. Couch,Richard S. Citrin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000727630

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Strategy-Driven Leadership by Michael A. Couch,Richard S. Citrin Pdf

It’s estimated that U.S. companies spend over $14 billion annually on leadership development --Match that number to the abundant and growing research that finds most leadership development to be ineffective, and the conclusion is a phenomenal amount of waste. The remedy for this situation is to have business strategy drive leadership development instead of creating programs that match a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. This book's approach, called Strategy-Driven Leadership Development (SDLD), puts business strategy first. It maintains an emphasis on building leadership programs around what it will take to make the business successful as opposed to implementing a program in the hopes that it will benefit the strategy. The result is a differentiated and targeted approach called Intentional Leadership Development, which provides the structure for transforming how leadership development is undertaken. At the heart of this book, however, is the explanation of how small, incremental changes in action and perspective create meaningful changes in the way leadership is developed. The focus is on the leadership behaviors associated with success for any company. Some companies may need leaders with better financial acumen while others may require better teamwork for success. These skills are learnable and when the energy of an organization is behind it, then leadership development can be transformational. The authors method "retools" prior leadership efforts – the emphasis is not on previous failures and restarting with new programs. There are many effective ideas and actions that are currently embedded in leadership programs, but they miss the critical element of tying their efforts to the business strategy. Strategy-Driven Leadership changes the way organizations think about and drive their leadership talent initiatives among their current and upcoming leaders. The book is filled with research, science-based information, case studies, and practical hands-on tools on why and how this Strategy-Driven Leadership Development model will transform company leadership approaches.

Author : Steven J. Stowell,Stephanie S. Mead
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119213062

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The Art of Strategic Leadership by Steven J. Stowell,Stephanie S. Mead Pdf

Develop the qualities of strategic leadership and become an active contributor to the short- and long-term success of your organization Today's organizations face two daunting challenges: 1. How to create new sources of competitive advantage to sustain long-term growth, and 2. How to engage leaders at every level of the organization so that they are more proactive and forward-looking in their area of responsibility. The Art of Strategic Leadership uses a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader. Instead of focusing on the skills, behaviors, and tools found in typical books on strategic leadership, the authors shed light on the attributes and qualities necessary to lead strategic change and help transform a business. Strategic leadership is what modern leadership is all about. Organizations expect leaders to anticipate and be proactive more than ever before. In this book, the authors draw on their vast experience working directly with leaders at all levels and use an intriguing narrative to explain this inside-out approach to understanding strategic leadership. The narrative follows the journey of how one manager discovered these critically important qualities. You will experience first-hand how these values and attributes manifest in the lives of realistic leaders; how they orchestrate long-term strategic change needed for the organization to compete and survive and actively shape the future while delivering short-term results. The Art of Strategic Leadership provides the content that will help you informally assess and reflect on your own strategic leadership qualities—those that are strengths and those that indicate areas you need to develop. It will guide you as you incorporate these values and qualities into your own leadership style and become a more effective catalyst for change. This book will help you in the following ways: Develop a more proactive, forward-thinking approach to leadership Approach strategy from both short- and long-term perspectives Adopt the core values and principles of a strategic leader Model the qualities exhibited by powerful leaders Strategic leaders serve as powerful examples to others in the organization. Their qualities and traits spread rapidly to those around them, empowering people at every level to take a more active role in meeting the demands of the future. The Art of Strategic Leadership will help you deepen and broaden your understanding of the core qualities of strategic leadership, leaving you better equipped to lead yourself and your team to a better place and create greater value for customers, owners, and employees.

Author : Rob Silzer,Ben E. Dowell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787988470

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Strategy-Driven Talent Management by Rob Silzer,Ben E. Dowell Pdf

Organizations today understand that superior talent can create competitive business advantage. Executives are working with human resource managers and talent professionals to significantly improve their organization's ability to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the talent needed to achieve the organization's strategies. Effective CEOs and senior leaders are realizing that strong talent resources are as critical to business success as financial resources. This book in the SIOP Professional Practice Series provides an up-to-date review and summary of current and leading-edge talent management practices in organizations. A comprehensive book, Strategy-Driven Talent Management brings together an outstanding group of leading practitioners who present state-of-the-art ideas, best practices, and guidance on how to recruit, select, assimilate, develop, and retain exceptional talent and integrate talent management efforts with organizational strategy. Written for human resource professionals, industrial-organizational psychologists, and corporate executives, this key resource is a clear must-read guide to the emerging field of strategic talent management. Strategy-Driven Talent Management shows how to build competitive advantage through an integrated and strategic talent management program summarizes what it takes to attract, develop, deploy, and retain the best talent for the strategic needs of an organization reviews critical issues such as managing talent in global organizations and measuring the effectiveness of talent management programs includes case examples and CEO interviews from leading-edge companies such as PepsiCo, Microsoft, Home Depot, Cargill, and Allstate, which reveal how each of these organizations drives talent management with their business strategies This essential must-have HR resource offers insight into the future of strategic talent management, an extensive annotated bibliography and suggestions for preparing the next generation of organizational leaders.

Author : Aaron K. Olson,B. Keith Simerson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118968161

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Leading with Strategic Thinking by Aaron K. Olson,B. Keith Simerson Pdf

Be a more effective leader with strategic thinking Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effectiveleaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadershipmodel, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership typesand demonstrates how each type achieves success – whetherthrough personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or byempowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills thatdistinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focusgroups with over three hundred leaders from around the world.Examples and case studies illustrate these concepts in action, andthe provided reference materials steer readers toward more advancedinformation on this important topic. The disruptive forces of technology and globalization raise newchallenges for leaders. This book is a manual that will helpexecutives and aspiring leaders harness these forces and addressthe two central questions of strategic leadership: How do the best leaders develop their strategy? How do effective leaders drive strategic change? Becoming a strategic leader isn’t about mimicking an icon.The most effective leaders seize opportunity in a way thatconsciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholderexpectations, and personal ability. Leading with StrategicThinking shows what these leaders do, and gives anyone thetools to be a more strategic leader.

Author : David S. Weiss,Vince Molinaro,Liane Davey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470675625

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Leadership Solutions by David S. Weiss,Vince Molinaro,Liane Davey Pdf

An organizational guide to assessing, measuring, and building leadership capacity Leadership capacity has emerged as a key source of competitive advantage in today's economy. But many organizations struggle to develop the capacity they need to succeed. This book offers concrete and precise strategies to close the leadership gap. It explains in detail how to conduct a leadership analysis, determining exactly where the gaps are in both organizational and individual leadership; analyzes the challenges a company faces; helps in understanding an organization's leadership deficit; and generates leadership solutions tailored to the organization's particular needs and shortcomings.

Author : Wang, Victor C. X.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1793 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522510505

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Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management by Wang, Victor C. X. Pdf

Strategic leadership techniques are the cornerstone to positive growth and prosperity within businesses and organizations. Implementing new management strategies and practices helps to ensure managers are optimizing their resources and driving innovation. The Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management investigates emergent administrative techniques and business practices being utilized within corporate and educational settings. Highlighting empirical research and best practices within the field, this encyclopedia will be an authoritative reference source for students, researchers, faculty, librarians, managers, and leaders across various disciplines and cultures.

Author : Blair H. Sheppard
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523088768

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Ten Years to Midnight by Blair H. Sheppard Pdf

“Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.

Author : Paul Leinwand,Cesare R. Mainardi
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625275219

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Strategy That Works by Paul Leinwand,Cesare R. Mainardi Pdf

How to close the gap between strategy and execution Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally create a gap between strategy and execution. And they show how some of the best companies in the world consistently leap ahead of their competitors. Based on new research, the authors reveal five practices for connecting strategy and execution used by highly successful enterprises such as IKEA, Natura, Danaher, Haier, and Lego. These companies: • Commit to what they do best instead of chasing multiple opportunities • Build their own unique winning capabilities instead of copying others • Put their culture to work instead of struggling to change it • Invest where it matters instead of going lean across the board • Shape the future instead of reacting to it Packed with tools you can use for building these five practices into your organization and supported by in-depth profiles of companies that are known for making their strategy work, this is your guide for reconnecting strategy to execution.

Author : David Beech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749473215

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Strategic Leadership by David Beech Pdf

In order to drive strategic purpose in your organisation and achieve success, executive leaders must be able to effectively organise people, resources and processes and engage people in coordinated action, enabling continuous adaptation and change. This book provides a cutting edge approach to driving strategy based on principles on the collaborative enterprise. It highlights the importance of driving strategic purpose through operational and frontline leaders, enabling you to achieve sustainable competitive performance and evolve your strategic leadership capabilities.

Author : Katherine M. Beatty,Richard L. Hughes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118046579

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Becoming a Strategic Leader by Katherine M. Beatty,Richard L. Hughes Pdf

Today’s organizations face difficult challenges in order to remain competitive—the quickening pace of change, increasing uncertainty, growing ambiguity, and complexity. To meet these challenges, organizations must broaden the scope of leadership responsibility for strategic leadership and engage more people in the process of leadership. In Becoming a Strategic Leader Rich Hughes and Kate Beatty from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offer executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. Based on CCL’s successful Developing the Strategic Leader Program, this book outlines the framework of strategic leadership and contains practical suggestions on how to develop the individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. The authors also show how individual managers can exercise effective strategic leadership through their distinctive and systemic approach—thinking, acting, and influencing.

Author : Canadian Defence Academy
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UIUC:30112075766896

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Strategic Leadership Development by Canadian Defence Academy Pdf

Author : Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030176747

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Purpose-driven Organizations by Carlos Rey,Miquel Bastons,Phil Sotok Pdf

A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift from previous models and theories, this book contributes to debate and offers insight for both scholars and practitioners. The chapters bring together academic rigour and practical models to help readers distinguish between the fads and influential strategies. Exploring the development of purpose at each level of business, from strategy and leadership to communication, this book avoids theoretical jargon and provides new approaches to building sustainable purpose-driven organizations. This is an Open Access book sponsored by DPMC Spain, UIC Barcelona and Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership

Author : Rod Baxter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781329619371

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Strategy Driven for Success Handbook: Deploy Strategies – Achieve Objectives – Celebrate Successes by Rod Baxter Pdf

The second edition is an improved guide to strategy driven for success, designed for leaders and managers of all levels in every industry. The strategy driven handbook combines elements of the strategy development, deployment, execution, and measurement using KPIs and balanced and cascading scorecards to achieve strategic goals and objectives. This handbook provides guidance through a simple seven-step approach called SUCCESS: Step One - Set the Strategic Goals; Step Two - Understand the KPIs; Step Three - Create Cultural Engagement; Step Four - Construct the Initiatives; Step Five - Execute with Rigor and Discipline; Step Six - Sustain Result with Scorecards; Step Seven - Salute the Organization. Employing this seven-step approach results in successful development, deployment, execution, and measurement of strategic goals and objectives. With the purchase of the strategy driven handbook, the reader has access to a downloadable file containing all templates referenced in the handbook.

Author : I. Chaston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137324436

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation During Austerity by I. Chaston Pdf

Uses research and real world case materials to examine how market performance can be sustained, even during a period of austerity, by the implementation of innovation-based growth opportunities and the exploitation of technology.

Author : Ron Meyer,Ronald Meijers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351661157

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Leadership Agility by Ron Meyer,Ronald Meijers Pdf

Leadership is about influencing others to move in a certain direction and there are many ways of achieving this influence. Each of these leadership styles has its inherent qualities and pitfalls, and will be more suited to specific people and different circumstances. The more leaders understand their preferred leadership styles and are able to flexibly switch to the most suitable style given the situation, the more effective they will be. This book maps out ten sets of opposite leadership styles, giving readers the possibility to understand the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, and to identify their own current preference. The ten leadership style dimensions cover the full range of leadership roles, from the leader as coach (interpersonal leadership), to the leader as organizer (organizational leadership), as strategist (strategic leadership), as sense-maker (leadership and mission) and as role model (leadership and self). Readers are invited to draw up their own leadership development plans, which is supported by an interactive App. Readers are also challenged to reflect on how they would approach a number of cases, after which they can go to an interactive web-forum to read how others have responded and engage in a discussion with them. Leadership Agility is a useful tool for practitioners in the corporate world as well as business students and emerging leaders.