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At these three key levels, strategic leadership provides the scope and direction to help drive success for the
organization. A major part of this success is derived from effectively managing continuous change through
improvements to both people and processes. For that reason, all executives and managers must have the tools
necessary for strategy formulation and implementation, and they must be ready to use those tools at a moment’s
notice. Managing in an environment of change and uncertainty requires strategic leaders to consistently maintain
a sense of direction, while simultaneously building ownership of goals and objectives for action within the teams
they are responsible for leading.
The fusion between an analytical point of view, utilized to build the processes for a successful strategy, and a
human element, which allows managers and executives to build successful, motivated, performing teams is
essential to strategic leadership success.
Strategic leadership often fails because the right balance between these two perspectives is not struck. If there
is a high concentration on the execution of the process and the outcome, often with disregard for the human
dimension, a leader is seen to be a task master, and dispirited individuals will be unmotivated to perform, often
“voting with their feet.” If leaders are most concerned about the human dimensions at the expense of the
process or the work ethic, work can take on the feeling of a “country club.” A good place to go to work, but little
clarity about what people are there to do.