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Leadership in Action: Strategic Leadership
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Leadership in Action: Strategic Leadership

by Richard L. Hughes
January 1998
Intermediate to advanced
8 pages
35m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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Business-Specific Individual Development

Understanding the business better Financial acumen.

Capital, cash flow, and EBIT [earnings before interest and taxes] constraints.

What do these participants' comments say about strategic leadership? In the first place, remember that we did not actually ask them to define or describe strategic leadership; rather we asked them to identify where there were organizational or individual shortfalls in it. They were describing the piece that was missing, not the full pie.

Nonetheless, some patterns in the responses stand out and are worth mentioning here. For one thing, there was a degree of parallelism between challenges to strategic leadership at the organizational and individual levels. For example, deficits ...

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ISBN: 9781604915068