Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction

by John Adair

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.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

John Eric Adair is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership.

Reviews

[Adrian O. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nu e suficient sa fii ocupat tot timpul. Intrebarea e: cu ce esti ocupat? - Henry David Thoreau

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

It has some usual lessons from a big name in the field, but most of the lessons can be learnt from reading the chapter summaries.

Very early on and intermittently throughout the author talks about the origins of leadership words and he makes military comparisons - both are unnecessary.

[Jonathan Z. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing new, but a handy quick-reference guide for leadership advice.