Strategic Leadership

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Strategic Leadership

• SOM 497
• Session 22

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Strategic Leadership

• What is Leadership?
• Exerting influence
• Motivating inspiring
• Helping others to realize their potential
• Leading
• BASICALLY
• Getting others to willingly do

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What Strategic Leaders Do?

• What is Strategic Leadership?
• The process of transforming organizations from
  what they are into what the leader would have
  them become
• But
• What does it mean?
• To know what the organization is
• To be dissatisfy with the current organization
• To have a vision of what to do
• To have a plan / process to implement the vision

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What Strategic Leaders Do?

• Key Strategic Leadership Activities
• Setting Direction
• Holistic understanding of the stakeholders needs
  the environment
• Design the Organization
• Taking advantage of the existing resources
  planning how to get the others
• Nurture a Culture of Excellence Ethics
• Awareness of the stakeholders
• A desire to have a sustainable business

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What Strategic Leaders Do?

• The Barriers to Change
• Vested interests in the status quo
• Systemic Barriers (Bureaucracy)
• Behavioral Barriers (bias)
• Political Barriers
• Personal Time Constrains
• Overcoming them
• Through Power
• Organizational (Legitimate, Reward, Coercive
  Information)
• Personal (Referent Expert)

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Who Strategic Leaders Are?

• Traits or Capabilities of Leaders
• Technical Skills
• Knowledge
• Cognitive Abilities
• Capability to understand
• Emotional Intelligence
• Self-awareness
• Self-regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skill

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What kind of Organization to Change Into?

• Learning Organization
• Empowering Employees at all Levels
• Social Capital
• Accumulating Sharing Internal Knowledge
• Social Capital
• Contemporary Information Control (Iterative)
• Balance between culture, rewards boundaries
• Gathering Integrating External Information
• Environmentally (Stakeholder) Aware
• Contemporary Information Control (Iterative)
• Challenging the Status Quo
• Ambidextrous Organizations (Adaptive)

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What kind of Organization to Change Into?

• Ethical Organization
• Individual Ethics versus Organizational Ethics
• Integrity-Based versus Compliance-Based Approach
• Role Model
• Corporate Credos Codes of Conduct
• Rewards Evaluation Systems
• Policies Procedures

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In Class Team Activity

• Using
• All the Class Material
• Your Business Proposal one-pager
• Work on your Business Proposal
• External Environment
• Who is the costumer?
• General Environment 6-Elements
• Competitive Environment Porters 5 Forces
• Internal Environment
• Value Chain
• Resources Available Needed
• Financial Planning
• Organizations Structure
• Strategy
• Business Level
• Digital
• International
• A Plan to finish