Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Revised and Updated Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy

The Strategic Leader's Roadmap provides a six-point checklist for combining business strategy with great leadership, based on one-on-one interviews with CEOs, research, and experience teaching executives and tomorrow's leaders. It explores how Indra Nooyi, Jack Ma, John Chambers, Lawrence Culp Jr., and other leaders have successfully led strategic redirections, pivoted and outflanked competition, and increased efficiency.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2021
Publisher: Wharton Digital Press

The Strategic Leader's Roadmap is a vital playbook for seamlessly blending business strategy with exceptional leadership, as emphasized by William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. In their comprehensive work, Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem present a six-step checklist for today's leaders to follow. They elucidate how leading strategically empowers managers to enhance their ability to conceive and execute strategies effectively. Through one-on-one interviews with CEOs, extensive research, and their experience teaching executives and future leaders, Singh and Useem take readers into the offices and mindsets of some of today's foremost strategic leaders. In this fully updated and revised edition, Singh and Useem delve into the remarkable journeys of individuals such as Indra Nooyi, who ascended to the CEO position at PepsiCo and orchestrated a successful strategic transformation; Jack Ma, who consistently pivoted and outmaneuvered competition to position Alibaba as a global powerhouse; John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco Systems, who revolutionized leadership within his company and other leaders to stay ahead of disruption; and Lawrence Culp Jr., the CEO of General Electric, who achieved a remarkable increase in efficiency by undertaking a thorough examination of process and strategy, resulting in a staggering 900% improvement. The Strategic Leader's Roadmap is designed to be fast-reading and actionable, equipping leaders at all levels with the essential skills to maintain their companies' competitive edge.

Weight: 188g
Dimension: 139 x 215 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781613631218