Effective Strategic Leadership: The Complete Guide to Strategic Management

by John Adair

Since John Adair, one of the world`s foremost experts in leadership training, introduced the term `strategic leadership` in the 1980s, it has come into universal use. Strategic leaders are generally responsible for large organizations and may influence thousands of people. It is their role to respond to change and external events, establishing a strong organizational structure, allocating resources and communicating strategic vision. As a strategic leader, your decisions may appear more risky, your actions more visible and achieving results more complex than for organizational managers. In Effective Strategic Leadership John Adair teaches you everything you need to know to enable you to be clear about what you want to achieve and to lead with purpose in order to turn your strategy into reality. Among other things, he shows you how - Judge situations quickly and respond accordingly - Make decisions based on incomplete information - Pick the best second-tier leaders to achieve your objectives

Genres: Leadership, Business

226 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.