LEAD 701 Yukl chapter11

1. Strategic Leadership in Organizations
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2. After studying this chapter, you should be
able to:
 Understand what organizational processes
determine a company’s performance.
 Understand how top executives can influence
organizational processes and performance.
 Understand the conditions that determine the
importance and effects of strategic leadership.
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3.  Understand the potential advantages of
executive teams and how to use them
effectively.
 Understand some emerging theories of
leadership in organizations.
 Understand the procedures that can be used to
formulate a good competitive strategy.
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Understand what organizational
processes determine a company's
performance

5.  Environmental adaptation
 Efficiency and reliability
 Competitive Strategy
 Human Resources
 Programs, systems, and structures
 Culture
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Understand how top executives
can influence organizational
processes and performance

7. Leadership Behaviors
 Task-oriented improves efficiency and
reliability
 Change-oriented improves adaptation
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8. Decision-making
 Strategy
 Structure
 Programs
 Systems
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9.  Trade-offs and Synergies
 Coordinating leadership across levels
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Understand the conditions that
determine the importance and
effects of strategic leadership

11.  Environmental uncertainty
 Declining performance
 Top executive constraints
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12.  CEO succession
 Case studies
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Understand the potential
advantages of executive teams
and how to use them effectively

14.  Potential advantages
 Facilitating conditions
 Leadership
 Example study
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Understand some emerging
theories of leadership in
organizations

16.  Shared and distributed leadership
 Relational leadership
 Complexity theory
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17.  External monitoring
 Competitive strategy formulation
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Understand the procedures that
can be used to formulate a good
competitive strategy

19.  Determine long-term objectives
 Learn customers’ wants and needs
 Learn about competitors
 Assess current strengths and weaknesses
 Identify core competencies
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20.  Evaluate need for strategic change
 Identify promising strategies
 Evaluate strategy outcomes
 Involve other executives
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