Hughes / Beatty / Dinwoodie Becoming a Strategic Leader

Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-57315-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)

In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming aStrategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine ColarelliBeatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for CreativeLeadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offerexecutives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategicleadership that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations.
This thoroughly revised edition concentrates on practical toolsfor producing impact right away. The authors place special emphasison three essential strategic components: discovering andprioritizing strategic drivers, which determine sustainability andcompetitiveness; leadership strategy, which ignites the connectionsbetween people critical to enacting the business strategy; and howto foster the individual and organizational learning that isfoundational to sustained performance.
The authors and other leadership development professionals haveused the distinctive and systematic approach described in this bookwith great success in CCL's Leading Strategically program. Thesecond edition also contains improved self-assessments that help toalign the book's lessons learned with the program's currentpractices.
Readers will find fresh suggestions about developing theindividual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutionsto become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. These arecritical strategic attributes in a time of ever more rapid change,greater uncertainty, and globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Richard L.

Beatty, Katherine M.

Dinwoodie, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Authors xvii
Introduction 1
1. What Is Strategic Leadership? 9
2. Strategic Thinking 53
3. Strategic Acting 105
4. Strategic Infl uence 145
5. Strategic Leadership Teams 197
6. Leadership Strategies for Superior Performance 229
7. Developing Strategic Leadership 259
Appendix A: Strategic Driver Paired-Voting Form 283
Appendix B: STRAT: Strategic Team Review and Action Tool 285
Appendix C: Using STRAT to Develop Your Strategic Leadership Team 291
Appendix D: STRAT Norm Data 299
Appendix E: Talent Sustainability Requirements 303
Appendix F: Leadership Strategy Plan Template 305
Appendix G: Action Learning Projects Criteria for Project Selection 309
References 311
Index 319
About the Center for Creative Leadership 327

Über Autor(innen)

Richard L. Hughes served as transformation chair andacademic department head at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has alsoserved in various management and teaching roles at the Center forCreative Leadership (CCL), where his work focused on seniorexecutive leadership and organizational leadership development.
Katherine Colarelli Beatty has developed strategicleadership capabilities in individuals, teams, and organizationsfor more than twenty years. She has worked with nonprofit,government, and for-profit organizations from a variety ofindustries around the globe. Kate is the managing director of theColorado Springs campus of CCL.
David L. Dinwoodie has served as general manager of EADABusiness School in Barcelona. He has held senior managementpositions with pan-European and global responsibilities at Ernst& Young, BICC General Cable, Planeta de Agostini, andBristol-Myers Squibb. David is the regional director for LatinAmerica at CCL.