The Strategic Leader's Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy

by Harbir Singh, Michael Useem

“We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.”
—Harbir Singh & Michael Useem

Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively navigate the challenges that lay ahead for today's organizations.

The Strategic Leader's Roadmap , by Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem, offers a 6-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

Drawing on one-on-one interviews with CEOs, in-depth research, and their experience teaching today's executives and tomorrow's leaders, Singh and Useem take readers into the offices-and mindsets-of some of today's foremost strategic leaders, including:
Fast-reading and inspiring, The Strategic Leader's Roadmap will enable leaders at all levels to master today's most vital capability.
 

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction, Business

132 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2016

Reviews

[Alireza Hejazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book’s overarching message is that strategic leadership is the combined application of strategy and leadership. It defines strategic leadership as mastering the elements of strategy and leadership both separately and as a whole. It necessitates combining consistently drawing on both as markets change, disruptions occur, and opportunities develop. A six-step roadmap for strategic leaders is proposed in the book. It promotes strategy and leadership integration, learning to lead strategically, establishing strategic fit, communicating strategic purpose, covering all levels of leadership in the company, and making deliberate decisions. The book is especially valuable for new organizational leaders who want to learn more about their sensitive job.

[Navin Valrani · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book that focuses on the basics with anecdotal evidence from John Chambers leadership at Cisco and Carlos Ghosn at Nissan. Both seemed to lack relevance today - an environment with much greater uncertainty and a digital push like never before.

[BigBlueSea · Rating 4 out of 5]

The strategic leaders roadmap provides insightful, practical advice for crafting a vision and raising strategic intelligence in your organization.

[Sherri · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book describes different company strategies, including Nisan, Ikea, P&G, and Cisco. How to implement a strategy:
A. What do you want to do
B. Create a vision
C. Create steps to get to the vision

The six strategies in the book are as follows:
1. Integrate strategy and leadership
2. Learn to lead strategically
3. Ensure strategic fit
4. Convey strategic intent
5. Layer leadership (multiple tiers in a company not just the top one)
6. Decide deliberately

[Jacob O'connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

You get what you pay for.  



Notes: 


1) Product Differentiation (13)


2) In summary, strategic leadership is about setting a clear vision and making choices of where to play and how to win, prioritizing goals, and ensuring you have the capabilities necessary to achieve those goals (25)