Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - September 2005 Issue
Strategic Leadership Part II: How To Contribute to Your Organization's Success
Strategic leadership is the never-ending effort to create sustainable competitive advantage for your organization. This month in Leading Effectively, we build on previous articles in the March 2005 issue that set the framework for understanding strategic leadership. Here, we offer tools and ideas for assessing and improving your strategic leadership capacity and that of your organization.
Many more ideas are available in Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success, a new book from CCL that offers a practical approach to improving your effectiveness as a strategic leader and supporting your organization's long-term vitality.
Strategic Thinking: Beyond Analysis
Strategic thinking isn't just about good analysis. It includes all the cognitive processes involved in shaping an organization's strategy. For most talented leaders, that requires developing qualitative thinking skills in addition to hard-minded, quantitative rigor. (more... )
Strategic Acting: Transforming Thinking Into Doing
Implementation. Execution. Walking the talk. As leaders, we know that action counts. So why is it often so difficult to just get things done? Translating strategic thinking into action can be difficult for several reasons. Here, we offer a way to help you connect good strategy and meaningful action. (more... )
Strategic Influencing: Creating Clarity, Commitment and Synergy
Today's leaders can't go it alone. They need understanding and commitment from many others to reap the rewards of the organization's strategic direction. Here's how strategic influencing allows you to create conditions of clarity, commitment and synergy throughout the organization. (more... )
It Takes Two: Business Strategy Plus Leadership Strategy
A good business strategy demands a leadership strategy. Without a working plan to identify and develop the leadership capabilities needed to implement the business strategy, your organization is likely to fall short of its goals. (more... )
Monday Morning Tools: A Strategic SWOT
You're probably familiar with the SWOT method of analyzing the organizational environment. By looking at organizational Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, you can jump-start your mind and begin to look at your work more strategically. Try this activity to get a better handle on what's going on and — just as important — how your perspective fits in. (more... )
August Poll Results
Our August 2005 Leading Effectively e-Newsletter on Leadership and Health asked for readers' perspectives on exercise and fitness. More than 400 people responded. (more...)
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CCL Event Spotlight: 2005 Friends of the Center Leadership Conference
October 5-7, 2005
Featuring Keynote Speaker
RUDY GIULIANI
Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson
Jersey City, New Jersey
The seventh annual Friends of the Center Leadership Conference is a chance to explore new ideas on leadership and leadership development, examine today's leadership challenges, and network with peers, mentors, and authors. Participants will include an international audience of 250 professionals from business, education, and nonprofit organizations who are interested in advancing the understanding, practice, and development of leadership.
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