Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena

on Earth. JM Burns

Strategic Leadership

• Strategic Leadership provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization.

• Strategic Leadership is the ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility and empower others to create strategic change as necessary.

3 Key Components

• Understanding the Now

• Seeing the Future

• Managing Change

Current Reality

Strategic Plan

The Vision

Understanding the Now

• Internal Environment

• External Environment– STEEP Analysis

• Social

• Technological

• Environmental

• Economic

• Political

– Environmental Scanning

– Baseline Assumptions

Desired Future

Past

Present AlternativeFutures

Strategic Leaders Understand that …

• The Present is a result of the past

• The future is a continuation of the present

• Changing the future begins now

Getting the Desired Future

• Intellectual Capital

– Knowledge Management

– Innovation

• Human Capital/ People

Intellectual Capital

• Knowledge Management: “The collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge” (Newman, 1991).

• From an industrially-based economy to a knowledge or information-based.

Knowledge Management

• The new source of wealth is knowledge, and not labor, land, or financial capital. It is the intangible, intellectual assets that must be managed.

• The key challenge of the knowledge-based economy is to keep learning and to foster innovation.

The Knowledge Economy

For several decades the world's best-known forecasters of societal change have predicted

the emergence of a new economy in which brainpower, not machine power, is the critical

resource. But the future has already turned into the present, and the era of knowledge has

arrived.--"The Learning Organization," Economist Intelligence Unit

Two Kinds of Knowledge

Knowledge is intangible, dynamic, and difficult to measure, but without it no organization can survive.

• Tacit: or unarticulated knowledge is more personal, experiential, context specific, and hard to formalize; is difficult to communicate or share with others; and is generally in the heads of individuals and teams.

• Explicit: explicit knowledge can easily be written down and codified.

Growing Knowledge

• To create a climate in which employees volunteer their creativity and expertise, leaders need to look beyond the traditional tools at their disposal: finding ways to build trust and develop fair process.

• That means getting the gatekeepers to facilitate the flow of information rather than hoard it.

Learning

• To achieve sustainability, there must be a focus on learning, and learning how to harness the learning capabilities that lead to innovation.

Learning = Discipleship

Human Capital/ People

The set of skills which an employee or volunteer acquires on the go, through training and experience, and which increase that persons contribution to the organization.

How do people learn?

Knowledge Economy Leadership“Knowledge workers don't respond to top-down leadership” Bill George

Learning and Leading

• “Leading from behind” Nelson Mandela

• Classroom and/or development?

• Development today means providing people opportunities to learn from their work rather than taking them away from their work to learn.

Learning Communities

Strategic Leadership

• What future do we want?

• Where are we now?

• How do we develop a culture of learning?

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