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Structure of this Website Lecture 7 : Do strategic leaders matter? The learning objective is for leaders establish the ways in which they may be able to make a difference strategically. Two differing kinds of maps are introduced. The one suggests leaders have strategic choice, creating futures for their organizations that would otherwise not have come into being. The other map (strategic determinism) suggests that the ‘best’ strategy arises out of the objective circumstances of the organization and environment. Strategy can be left to a team of strategic planners. Various characteristics of effective strategic leaders have been suggested. In contrast to more general leadership maps, greater emphasis has been placed on the capacity of leaders to see in richer ways, including skills at seeing further and more deeply into the future (cognitive complexity). Strategic transformations may be assisted by leaders through attending to ‘tipping points’ for change. Four kinds of such triggers have been identified as cognitive, resource based, motivational and political dimensions. Box 7.1 sets questions exploring the reader’s beliefs regarding scope for influence (strategic choice) open to the strategic leader. |  |
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