The document discusses strategic leadership and provides models and examples. It describes strategic leadership as having vision for the future of an organization, establishing strategic intent and direction, and empowering others. It provides models for strategic leadership including those focusing on vision, external environment, and balancing roles. Examples of strategic leadership structures are given for Motorola and the US military.
2. Strategic
Leadership
The Characteristic & Model
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3. Strategic Leadership (Nanus)
(Nanus)
Vision (A realistic, credible, attractive future for the
organization. It deals with the future and expresses what
you will be working hard to create)
What is not? (It is not: a prophecy, a mission, factual,
true or false, static for all time, a constraint on actions)
Criteria (Future oriented, utopian, appropriate, high
ideals, clarify purpose and direction, inspire enthusiasm,
reflect uniqueness, ambitious)
Leadership (Take charge, make things happen, dream
dreams, then translate them into reality)
Burt Nanus, Visionary Leadership, 1992
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4. Strategic Leadership (Collins)
(Collins)
Identify core values and sense of purpose greater than
profitability alone
Preserve the core ideology, but allow all processes to
change and progress
Challenge the business by continually setting huge,
daunting goals
Actively encourage a cult-like culture
cult-
Innovate prolifically and keep what works
Employ home-grown management
home-
Support mechanisms that create a culture of “good
enough is never good enough”
James C Collins and Jerry I Porras, “Built to Last: Successful habits of visionary companies!, Random House 1998
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5. Effective Leadership (Hitt)
(Hitt)
Strategic Leadership (The ability to anticipate,
envision, maintain flexibility, and empower
others to create strategic change as necessary)
Strategic Intent (The leveraging of a firm’s
internal resources, capabilities, and core of
competencies in the competitive environment)
Strategic Direction (Long-term vision of a firm’s
(Long-
strategic intent)
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12. The Strategic Management Process
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13. The Strategic Architecture
Strategy &
Stakeholder
Relationship
s
People Resources &
Knowledge
Values Core
Management
Culture Skills
Operational
Processes,
Technology &
Structures
Financial and Social Performance
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14. The Challenge - Developing
Strategies in an Uncertain World
How do we cope with risk and uncertainty?
How do we select the right indicators to track?
How do we identify key trends and
developments?
How do we spot new opportunities, ‘white spaces’
and the potential for major discontinuities?
How do we plan, operate and survive in a
turbulent and fast-changing world?
fast-
How do we handle those not playing by ‘our
rules'?
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15. Shaping Strategy in the Face of
Uncertainty The Economy
Climate Commercial
Global
Developments Developments
Infrastructure Media
S&SR
Lifestyles Education
People
Knowledge Values Resources & Crime
Natural
Management Culture Core Skills
World
Operational
Processes &
Structures
Providers
Technology of Finance
Financial and Social Performance
Government Suppliers
Policy
Environment Interest Alternative Workers
Public
Groups Regulation Expectation Providers
Substitutes
& Values
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17. Strategic Leadership to
Strategic Competitiveness
Effective Strategic
Leadership
Shape the formation
of
Strategic Intent Strategic Mission
Influence
Successful
Strategic Actions
Formulation Implementation
of Strategies of Strategies
Strategic
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18. Establishing Determining
Balance Strategic
Controls 6 Direction
1
Maintaining
Effective Core
Competencies
5 2
Strategic
Emphasizing
4
Leadership
Ethical 3
Practices
Developing
Sustaining an Human
organizational Capital
culture
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19. The Strategic Direction Process
What Is Who Are How Will
What Is
Why Are The Basis The We
Our
We in Of Our Stake Measure
Ambition?
Business? Offering? Holders? Ourselves?
• Strategic • Specific • Distinctive • Customers • Balanced
Intent Goals Capabilities • Policy Scorecard:
• Mission • Scope • Knowledge • Financial - CSF’s
• Values • Scale • Product/ • Commercial - KPI’s
• Speed Service • Ethical - Learning/Growth
Portfolio • Regulatory - Service
• Partnerships/ - Innovation
Alliances - Creativity
• Leverage - Financials
• Assets / - Outcomes
Resources
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20. Successful Strategies
Successful Strategy
Effective Implementation
Simple, Profound Objective
Consistent & Understanding Appraisal of The
Long-Term of the Organization's
Objectives Competitive Resources
Market
Source: Contemporary Strategy Analysis, R Grant 1998, p 10
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