Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction (The John Adair Leadership Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0749462035 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Every organization needs a strategic leader. This is the leader who steers the organization in times of change while motivating and inspiring their team.Strategic Leadership 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 of a strategic leader and broad functions of that role such as building and maintaining a team, achieving a common task, and motivating and developing the individual. It assesses skills needed to be effective, and the seven functions that make up the role of strategic leader.
Five Stars As always, Mr Adair's wisdom enlightens me tremendously.. Erudite examination of strategic leadership Rolf Dobelli John Adair is a pivotal expert on "strategic leadership" - a term he says he introduced in the 1970s - and he has written some 50 books on the topic. Employing ancient Greek history as his touchstone, Adair presents invaluable information, sharp insights, wonderful quotes and fascinating anecdotes about the history and techniques of strategic leadership in this exceptionally literate treatise. Adair uses clear, simple sentences to get his points across, creating a blueprint to help anyone become an effective strategic leader. A very good choice for the ones who are looking to get Marian Stirbescu A very good choice for the ones who are looking to get the understanding of Action Centred Leadership. I'm a huge fan of Mr John Adair and this book definitely met my expectations. I have suggested to a publisher in Bucharest to make the translate it to Romanian.