Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))

About this book

In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming a Strategic Leader Richard L. Hughes Katherine Colarelli Beatty and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative Leaderships (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic leadership that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. This thoroughly revised edition concentrates on practical tools for producing impact right away. The authors place special emphasis on three essential strategic components: discovering and prioritizing strategic drivers which determine sustainability and competitiveness; leadership strategy which ignites the connections between people critical to enacting the business strategy; and how to foster the individual and organizational learning that is foundational to sustained performance. The authors and other leadership development professionals have used the distinctive and systematic approach described in this book with great success in CCLs Leading Strategically program. The second edition also contains improved self-assessments that help to align the books lessons learned with the programs current practices. Readers will find fresh suggestions about developing the individual team and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more adaptable flexible and resilient. These are critical strategic attributes in a time of ever more rapid change greater uncertainty and globalization.