The document outlines the role of strategic leaders in organizations, emphasizing their responsibilities in creating and implementing strategic change. Key themes include the importance of a strong strategic vision, pragmatism in achieving results, establishing effective communication networks, and influencing company culture. Additionally, it highlights the leaders' role in managing change and ensuring corporate governance through direction, policy formulation, and operational control.

1. Strategic leadership
Strategic Implementation

2. Prepared By
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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Strategic leadership
• The term strategic
leader is used to
describe the manager
who head the
organization and who
are primarily responsible
for creating and
implementing strategic
change.

4. Themes of strategic leadership

5. Strategic Vision
• A well crafted,
appreciated and
supported mission is at
the heart of a leader’s
strategic vision. It may
reflect his own current
assessment of where the
firm should go or how he
may continue to carry out
the long term plans
established by his
predecessor.

6. Pragmatism
• Pragmatism is the ability
to make things happen
and achieve positive
results. This can happen
only when leader utilize
resource in an efficient
and effective way.

7. Structure and policies
• A visionary strategic
leader, as an agent of
change, should lay down
the rules of the game in
concrete terms and
resolve all contentious
issues in a proper way

8. Communication network
• Both formal and informal
network should be used by
the leader to inform people
about priorities and
strategies and ensure that
these are implemented
expeditiously. Lateral
communication should be
encouraged, in addition to
upward and downward
communication channels,
between various
departments and divisions.

9. Culture
• A strategic leader can
influence the culture of a
company significantly. In
fact, every company
reflects the character and
personality of its leader.
The beliefs and values of
the leader have a strong
bearing on how
employees behave and
react to situations on a
daily basis.

10. Managing change
• Effective leaders are
responsible for initiating
necessary changes that
ensure continued
organizational success. To
manage change
effectively, the leader
need to have a clear vision
of the future – where the
organization is heading
together with the means
for creating and reaching
this future.

11. Governance and Management
• The major responsibilities
of strategic leaders with
respect to corporate
governance are provide
direction in the form of
mission, formulate and
implement changes,
monitor and control
operations, provide
policies and guidelines to
other team members and
achieve results in a
manner acceptable to
society at large.