Leading with Strategic Thinking, Aaron K. Olson
Leading with Strategic Thinking, Aaron K. Olson
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Leading with Strategic Thinking
Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

Author: Aaron K. Olson, B. Keith Simerson

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/07/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Increasing complexity throughout the world and within organizations raises new challenges for leaders charged with forming and executing strategy.  The most effective leaders address this complexity in a way that consciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholder expectations and personal ability. Rather than providing a formulaic one-size-fits-all approach to strategic management, Leading With Strategic Thinking defines four types of strategic leadership. The Futurist driving strategy through personal vision The Director driving strategy through a structured process The Opportunist driving strategy through networking and co-creation The Incubator driving strategy through empowering others Leading With Strategic Thinking is useful and practical, focusing on the multitude of factors contributing to an effective strategic planning and the enablers of successful execution. The book provides actionable guidelines, in the form of checklists and templates, as well as examples and case studies, and reference materials to help readers further explore this important topic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff

Olson and Simerson's four types of strategic leadership - visionary, directive, incubating, and collaborative - are at once intuitive and reaching. These types of leadership relate to and are meant to describe the ways the individual leader thinks strategically. Linking strategic THINKING with strat......more

Goodreads review by Carol

For me this was somewhere between a 2 and 3 star book. It read very much like a text book which is not what I gravitate to. I did not personally find the case studies to be overly helpful. Felt that about 3/4 of the book was describing the leadership styles, and the remainder on how you could grow y......more