Becoming a Strategic Leader / J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership) (PDF)

In the second edition of the best-selling Becoming a
Strategic Leader, Richard L. Hughes, Katherine Colarelli
Beatty, and David L. Dinwoodie draw from the Center for Creative
Leadership's (CCL) acclaimed Leading Strategically program to offer
executives and managers a comprehensive approach to strategic
leadership that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations.

This thoroughly revised edition concentrates on practical tools
for producing impact right away. The authors place special emphasis
on three essential strategic components: discovering and
prioritizing strategic drivers, which determine sustainability and
competitiveness; leadership strategy, which ignites the connections
between people critical to enacting the business strategy; and how
to foster the individual and organizational learning that is
foundational to sustained performance.

The authors and other leadership development professionals have
used the distinctive and systematic approach described in this book
with great success in CCL's Leading Strategically program. The
second edition also contains improved self-assessments that help to
align the book's lessons learned with the program's current
practices.

Readers will find fresh suggestions about developing the
individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions
to become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. These are
critical strategic attributes in a time of ever more rapid change,
greater uncertainty, and globalization.