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.
New title from a world authority on leadership and author of best-selling Not Bosses but Leaders Full of checklists, summaries and historical examples Explores the fundamentals of strategic leadership and all the skills necessary to be effective in the roleAbout the AuthorJohn Adair is the world's leading authority on leadership and leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the Action-Centred Leadership programmes he pioneered. He is the author of over 50 books, many of which are published by Kogan Page, including the leadership classics,
Not Bosses But Leaders and
How to Grow Leaders.
Book InformationISBN 9780749462031
Author John AdairFormat Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint Kogan Page LtdPublisher Kogan Page Ltd
Weight(grams) 300g
Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 148mm * 13mm