The Art of Strategic Leadership

Today's leaders are hungry to know the unique leadership qualities necessary to fulfill the expectations their organizations have for them-driving and shaping the future of the company. However, extensive research into many different kinds of businesses in a diverse variety of industries reveals, too often, professionals aren't clear about what successful leadership attributes are and what they look like. The Art of Strategic Leadership uses a distinctive and engaging narrative to explain strategic leadership from the inside out. Instead of focusing on the skills, behaviors, and tools found in typical books on strategic leadership, this revolutionary guide sheds light on the attributes and qualities necessary to lead strategic change and help transform a business by following one manager on his journey to discovering these critically important qualities for himself. Through Alex's firsthand perspective, you gain insight into how strategic leadership values and attributes manifest in the lives of real leaders, and how these leaders actively shape the future by orchestrating the long-term strategic change needed for the organization to compete and survive while delivering short-term results. Along the way, insightful explanations explore the seven essential qualities of strategic leaders, which are the attributes with the greatest impact on setting a direction and facilitating organizational change. The illustrative, narrative writing style also gives you practical guidance for assessing your own strategic-leadership strengths as well as skills you want to cultivate. By following the pre-scriptive advice, developing new capabilities, and applying versatile strategic approaches, you can prepare yourself to masterfully re-spond to business challenges, leverage new opportunities, and excel in your role. Complete with such online resources as a self-assessment tool and resources for further developing your strategic leadership skills, this one-stop resource to leadership excellence enables you to: Quickly reference conveniently organized segments of real-world direction and action-able steps for developing the qualities of strategic leaders in yourself Master and embody the inner characteristics, qualities, and values that enable strategic leaders to look out, look up, and look around Use intuitive approaches to practicing what great strategic leaders actually do to take proactive steps toward their goals The Art of Strategic Leadership gives you the core values and priorities to elevate you into the strategic class of leaders.