Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction, Hardcover/John Adair

Every organization needs a strategic leader. This is the leader who steers the organization in times of change while motivating and inspiring their team. Strategic Leadership encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, transferable skills, and the art of inspiring others. It then describes the role of a strategic leader and broad functions of that role such as building and maintaining a team, achieving a common task, and motivating and developing the individual. It assesses skills needed to be effective, and the seven functions that make up the role of strategic leader.