Book description
Since John Adair, one of the world's foremost experts in leadership
training, introduced the term 'strategic leadership' in the 1980s, it
has come into universal use. Strategic leaders are generally responsible
for large organizations and may influence thousands of people. It is
their role to respond to change and external events, establishing a
strong organizational structure, allocating resources and communicating
strategic vision.
As a strategic leader, your decisions may appear more risky, your
actions more visible and achieving results more complex than for
organizational managers. In Effective Strategic Leadership
John Adair teaches you everything you need to know to enable you to be
clear about what you want to achieve and to lead with purpose in order
to turn your strategy into reality. Among other things, he shows you how
to:
- Judge situations quickly and respond accordingly
- Make decisions based on incomplete information
- Pick the best second-tier leaders to achieve your objectives John
Adair is an international leadership consultant to a wide variety of
organizations in business, government, the voluntary sector, education
and health, and has been named as one of the forty people worldwide who
have contributed most to the development of management thought and
practice. In 2009 the United Nations appointed him as Chair of Strategic
Leadership Studies at its central college in Turin. He has written over
forty books on leadership, management and history, which have been
translated into many languages.
