Strategic leadership involves anticipating future challenges, envisioning opportunities, and inspiring others to work towards a shared strategic vision. It requires anticipating industry changes, finding competitive advantages, evaluating strategy implementation, building effective teams, setting goals, and communicating strategically. Strategic leaders must anticipate issues, challenge assumptions, interpret information from diverse perspectives, make balanced decisions, align stakeholders, and promote organizational learning.

1. Strategic Leadership
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or
being liked ; leadership is defined by results not by
attributes”
Peter drucker
Ponmuthu s

2. Strategy
• A method or plan chosen
to bring about a
desired future, such as
achievement of
a goal or solution to
a problem.
• Planning of where you are
and where you want to be
• Competitive advantage
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3. Leadership
• Leading
• Influencing
• Commanding
• Guiding
• Improving people
• To attain the mission
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4. Strategic Leadership
• Strategy + Leadership
• Leading strategically
• Bringing changes into
organization
• Building a strategy and
implementing that with an
effective leadership quality
• Making the subordinates to
understand the mission,
vision & challenges
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5. Strategic Leadership
• Is a person’s ability to anticipate, envision,
maintain flexibility, think strategically, and work
with others to initiate changes that will create a
viable future for the organization
• Is a process of providing the direction and
inspiration necessary to create and implement a
firm’s vision, mission, and strategies to achieve
organizational objectives
• Must involve managers at the top, middle, and
lower levels of the organization
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6. Strategic Leadership:
The Essential Skills
• Anticipating and forecasting events in the
external environment that have the potential to
impact business performance
• Finding and sustaining competitive advantage
by building core competencies and selecting the
right markets in which to compete
• Evaluating strategy implementation and results
systematically, and making strategic
adjustments
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7. Strategic Leadership (cont.)
• Building a highly effective, efficient, and
motivated team of employees
• Deciding on appropriate goals and priorities
for achieving them
• Being an effective communicator
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8. Strategic Leadership:
The Essential Skills on HBS study
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9. The Essential Skills cont.’
• Anticipate
• Gather information from a wide network of experts
and sources both inside and outside your industry or
function.
• Predict competitors’ potential moves and likely
reactions to new initiatives or products.
• Challenge
• Reframe a problem from several angles to understand
root causes.
• Seek out diverse views to see multiple sides of an
issue.
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10. The Essential Skills cont.’
• Interpret
• Demonstrate curiosity and an open mind.
• Test multiple working hypotheses with others
before coming to conclusions.
• Decide
• Balance long-term investment for growth with
short-term pressure for results.
• Determine trade-offs, risks, and unintended
consequences for customers and other
stakeholders when making decisions.
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11. The Essential Skills cont.’
• Align
• Assess stakeholders’ tolerance and motivation for
change.
• Pinpoint and address conflicting interests among
stakeholders.
• Learn
• Communicate stories about success and failure to
promote institutional learning.
• Course correct on the basis of disconfirming
evidence, even after a decision has been made.
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12. Summary
• What is “Strategy”
o Mission & vision + Competitive + Actionable
• What is “Leadership”
o Lead + Motivate + Mentoring + implementing
• Leading Strategically
o Find the strategic vision
o Make it clear, specific, strong
o Implement by efficient leadership
o Manage towards the vision
o Communicate the vision
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