Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success
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ISBN: 0787968676 / Publisher: Jossey-Bass, February 2005
Hughes and Beatty, both of the Center for Creative Leadership, offer executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. They outline a framework based on their organization's Developing the Strategic Leader program, and give suggestions on how to develop the individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more resilient. Numerous checklists are included, and appendices provide 30 pages of assessment instruments. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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.
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