In the first decade of the 20th century business and organisational researchers and writers have increasingly
made it clear that the two key things that increasingly distinguish the most successful and top-performing
organisations from those that are mere ‘also rans’ are strong strategic management and visionary leadership.
Never has it been more important to move from merely managing organisations, focusing only on operational
decisions, to strategic leadership. Without a clear and motivating vision and a skilled leadership team to move
the organisation towards the vision the successful organisations of today may not even survive the next decade.
Thus, effective strategic leadership is central to the future success of any organisation. This starts with defining
a clear strategic vision – setting out the leadership team’s strategic intent for the organisation and its various
businesses. This then needs to be translated into an agenda for action – not merely a ‘strategic plan’ but a set of
guidelines or a road map clearly setting out where the business needs to go and empowering managers at all
levels to make the multitude of decisions that they need to make in the clear understanding of where the
business is heading. But finally, the organisation needs managers to move from transactional management to
transformational leadership. Real strategic management requires that leaders at all levels create the mindsets
and behaviours that are needed to transform the organisation from its existing paradigm to the new strategic
paradigm that the vision sets forth. This new programme will focus on the strategic thinking and leadership
behaviours that a high-performance organisation needs to guide it to a successful long term’s future.
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