Effective Strategic Leadership : An Essential Path to Success Guided by the World's Great Leaders

by John Adair

With the rapid trend away from management to business leadership, there is a need for a new, broader understanding of leadership. This clear and authoritative guide answers the questions, 'what is strategic leadership?', 'what makes a person effective as a strategic leader?' and 'how can I develop my abilities as a leader?'. The concept of leadership is relevant not only to organisational life but to all of everyone has to 'lead' their own life. To be a strategic life-leader means developing a vision and direction for one's life, identifying personal core values and fostering an informal team among colleagues and associates. "Effective Strategic Leadership" is as important for unstructured careers as it is in large companies or organisations.

Genres: Leadership, Business

352 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

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

[John Cumming · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as good as his Effective Leadership. Most of the first part seemed a bit rambling and not as coherent as I had hoped. Maybe just not the kind of writing I find engaging. Sections of part two were better, and it did improve towards the end, albeit feeling a bit like common sense - treat people as people. I may have misread, but the section on culture took the perspective of culture being somewhat independent from structure (I took this to mean policy, process etc.) However, culture is behaviour and behaviour is constrained by the above. To express cultural change as purpose, vision, values is only part of the picture and the interplay of organisational constraints and behaviour is fundamental to cultural change - I think that was glossed over.