STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

Survival in Today's Business Environment Requires Strategic Leadership



Survival in Today's Business Environment Requires Strategic Leadership

Introduction

There are people who are distinguished from all others, not by natural talent or knowledge, but, for their ability to inspire others to dream and make their dreams come true, to generate passion and energy into everything they do and transmit it to the people around them In their role, there is a huge difference between being a leader and being a boss, which is limited to meet senior managers and find that the people around them do what is required. The leader is a person who is respected, admired, and followed by his team (Addison, 2009, pp90). He builds the best conditions for his organization forward, always giving the example, and implementing projects from start to finish. He knows how to interpret what happens inside and outside the company, and manages, through his entrepreneurial vision and management skills, become him and his company more competitive in the market.

Accordind to Blair et al (2008) a leader is known for creating the future for an organization. He promotes and directs the changes in his life and the organization he works for, is sociable, promotes its growth and the people around him, is tolerant, flexible, and takes risks. Strategic leadership is the process by which an individual has influence over people and inspires, motivates and directs its activities to reach the goals; the essence of strategic leadership is to have followers. Strategic leadership varies from country to country and culture, for European managers is more humanistic than the Japanese or Americans. Power of leader is the ability to induce or influence the beliefs or actions of other individuals or groups. Authority is a right in a position to make decisions. Formal authority is a type of power based on the recognition of legitimacy.

Zaccaro (2008) confirms that components of strategic leadership are ability to use power effectively and responsibly. Ability to understand that human beings have different motivational forces at different times, ability to inspire, ability to act in a way to develop an environment conducive to responding to the motivations and encouraged. People spend most of their time trying to plan how they will develop their activities, planning how they will achieve their goals and other less important, and sometimes spend more time trying to organize his time, but there are also people methods that achieve organize their time so they achieve their objectives and develop effectively.

According to Coile (2006) to keep a good control of time and good time management must be clear about where you want to go, hence the importance of addressing a vision, mission, goals and recognize some real strengths and some weaknesses. Among the characteristics of a true leader is the ability to envision the future and propose clear actions to combat the future, and achieving goals that benefit their team. Leaders learn to earn the respect of his colleagues thanks to his charisma, which is more important to have ...