Change Individuals and Strategic Leadership

Orgs that rely on leaders to drive strategic change fing difficulty in sustaining it in the long run. Eg Motorola Galvin was a driver of change but also held up deals with seimens

Strategic leaders are those who

• Think laterally • Bring past experience to bear • Think systematically

OR we may take the view that leadership emerges from competing ideas in the org

March (1992) believes that most CEO's arent inspirational - most leaders tend to be competent rather than imaginative. they seek to refine the org and not challenge it"

What the difference between visonary genius and crackpot. Only History tells us

Success strategies

• ability to communicate and undrstand different stakeholders • able to sythesize many ideas • cope with generating new ideas

Degues mentions memory of the future in which CEO's think of all sceanrios and outcomes in the future then applies them when they occur. But they may miss vital signs as a result