Effective Strategic Leadership: An Essential Path to Success Guided by the World's Greatest Leaders

by John Adair

To be a strategic life-leader means developing a vision and direction for one's life, identifying personal core values, and fostering an informal team among colleagues and associates. Effective Strategic Leadership explains what makes a person successful as a leader, and is as useful for unstructured careers as it is in large companies or organizations.

Genres: Leadership, Business

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

John Eric Adair is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership.

Reviews

[John Cumming]

Not as good as his Effective Leadership. Most of the first part seemed a bit rambling and not as coherent as I had hoped. Maybe just not the kind of writing I find engaging. Sections of part two were better, and it did improve towards the end, albeit feeling a bit like common sense - treat people as people. I may have misread, but the section on culture took the perspective of culture being somewhat independent from structure (I took this to mean policy, process etc.) However, culture is behaviour and behaviour is constrained by the above. To express cultural change as purpose, vision, values is only part of the picture and the interplay of organisational constraints and behaviour is fundamental to cultural change - I think that was glossed over.