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Title: Leading with Strategic Thinking
Subtitle: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results
Author: Aaron K. Olson, B. Keith Simerson
Narrator: Daniel Thomas May
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-07-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Business, Leadership
Publisher's Summary:
Be a more effective leader with strategic thinking.
Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effective leaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadership model, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership types and demonstrates how each type achieves success - whether through personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or empowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills that distinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focus groups with over 300 leaders from around the world. Examples and case studies illustrate these concepts in action, and the provided reference materials steer listeners toward more advanced information on this important topic.
The disruptive forces of technology and globalization raise new challenges for leaders. This book is a manual that will help executives and aspiring leaders harness these forces and address the two central questions of strategic leadership:
Becoming a strategic leader isn't about mimicking an icon. The most effective leaders seize opportunity in a way that consciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholder expectations, and personal ability. Leading with Strategic Thinking shows what these leaders do and gives anyone the tools to be a more strategic leader.
Members Reviews:
Leading with Strategic Thinking
The authors, Olson and Simerson begin Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four ways effective leaders gain insight, drive change and get results, with an insightful question:
âYou need to be more strategicâ When someone receives this kind of feedback, what does it mean?
We often talk about strategic thinking and how important it is, but few people can actually identify how it works. The authors help us get clarity on just that. They deconstruct what strategic thinking is, and then they explain the different kinds of strategic leadership.
The authors are careful to point out that strategic thinking is not the same as strategic planning. They highlight three activities in strategic thinking: assessing situations, recognizing patterns and making decisions. They identify three knowledge sets that underpin strategic thinking: systems thinking, cognitive psychology and game theory.
Cognitive psychology is about how people perceive, solve problems, remember, make decisions and become motivated. Systems Thinking is an approach to understanding how systems behave, interact with their environment, and influence each other. Game Theory is the study of decision making when the decision involves two or more parties. Specifically, game theory is based on the assumptions that interests among multiple stakeholder groups may differ and that others involved typically have alternatives available to them.
After carefully explaining the three activities of strategic thinking, the authors focus on leadership. They describe a âstrategic leader as the individual whoâ regardless of role, position, or titleâ intentionally takes advantage of opportunities to think strategically, influence others toward a chosen course of action, and
garner needed buy-in, commitment, and advocacy.â
Olson and Simerson then suggest there are four styles of strategic leadership:
1. Visionary Type: These leaders are inspiring and charismatic
2.
