Becoming a Strategic Leader

Name: Becoming a Strategic Leader
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780470330951

by Unknown Author

352 pages2007Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, JohnISBN 9780470330951

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Today's organizations face difficult challenges in order to remain competitive--the quickening pace of change, increasing uncertainty, growing ambiguity, and complexity. To meet these challenges, organizations must broaden the scope of leadership responsibility for strategic leadership and engage more people in the process of leadership. In Becoming a Strategic Leader Rich Hughes and Kate Beatty from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offer executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. Based on CCL's successful Developing the Strategic Leader Program, this book outlines the framework of strategic leadership and contains practical suggestions on how to develop the individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. The authors also show how individual managers can exercise effective strategic leadership through their distinctive and systemic approach--thinking, acting, and influencing.

Publication Details

Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Published: 2007
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780470330951

About Unknown Author

Richard L. Hughes received a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a master's degree from the University of Texas, and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Wyoming. He was a professor at the Air Force Academy, including ten years as head of its Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. He then moved to the Air Force Academy's Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where his work focused on senior executive leadership; specifically, strategic leadership and organizational culture change. He helped create the Center for Creative Leadership’s organizational leadership development program. In 2007, he was appointed the newly-created position of Transformation Chair at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Hughes was the senior author of the textbook Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience. He also co-authored Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization’s Enduring Success (2005).