Leadership in Organizations, Eight Edition

Chapter 11 Strategic Leadership in Organizations

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Understand what organizational processes determine a company’s performance.

• Understand how top executives can influence organizational processes and performance.

• Understand constraints on strategic leadership and conditions that make it more important.

• Understand the potential advantages of executive teams and how to use them effectively.

• Understand why it is important to monitor the external environment and how to do it.

• Understand the procedures that can be used to formulate a good competitive strategy.

Much of the early leadership literature was concerned with supervisors or middle managers in organizations, ...