The Essence of Strategic Leadership

The Strategic Leader

John Pisapia

Pisapia, J. 2009. The Strategic Leader04/15/2023

Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaJune 13, 2015

http://www.fau.edu/

The Topics for the Day!لليوم !موضوعات

• Morning صباح

Dealing with a Changing World- the Power of the Curve –Strategies

to Deal with Strategic Change

What is Strategic Leadership?

• Building an Ambidextrous Organization -

• Exploitation/ Exploration• Mission/Opportunity Driven

• Afternoon الظهر بعد

Thinking Like a Strategic Leader– the minds and thinking skills

needed to think differently and find the future.

Leading Like a Strategic Leader The tactics strategic leaders use

to influence others to willingly join-in pursuit of organizational goals.

Trusting the Process

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Strategic Leadership DefinedAt its core, strategic leadership is the

ability,( as well as the wisdom), to make consequential decisions about ends, strategy, and tactics. . . . It marries management with leadership, and

strategic intent with tactics and actions. (Pisapia, 2009, p..


The Nature of Changeالتغيير طبيعة

Every few hundred years in western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross... a divide. Within a few short decades society rearranges itself, its world view; its basic values; its social and political structure; its arts; its key institutions. Fifty years later, there appears a new world...we are currently living through such atransformation. Drucker, 1993: p1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Do you Agree with Drucker?

If Yes!• What are the major changes that have happened in Saudi Arabia in the last ten years?

• المملكة ما في حدثت التي الكبرى التغيرات هياألخيرة العربية العشر السنوات في السعودية

How have these changed your society?

مجتمعك؟ هذه غيرت كيف• Is there a relationship between changes in Saudi Arabia and changes in the world?

• المملكة في التغيرات بين عالقة هناك هلالعالم؟ في والتغيرات السعودية العربية


Explain these Facts• 1

• On June 28, 2007, Nokia was the top selling mobile-phone company in the world, people stopped working when they left their computers, Android phones didn't exist, and executives of all echelons were thumbing on their BlackBerrys.

• The next day, Apple's first iPhone went on sale. • On April 19, 2012, Nokia reported 1.7 billion dollar loss in the first

quarter.

• On July 1, 2012 - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced it was laying off 5,000 people -- and reported a first-quarter loss of $518 million. Sales were down 40% from the previous year.


The Power of the Curve

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Expl

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Disruptive Innovation

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Analytic & Synthetic

Uncertainty


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THE FINAL EXAM

WHAT KIND OF CHANGE IS THIS?

هذا؟ التغيير من نوع أي

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The Lessons of the Curve

المنحنى من دروس

Build Ambidextrous OrganizationsExploitationExploration

Employ Strategic ThinkingMinds and Mindsets

Strategic Thinking Skills

Trust the ProcessThe SL Method

Use a Multifaceted Set of Leader Influence ActionsLeader Influence Actions

Strategic Leaders Find the Future and Make it Happen!


Task 1 Build Ambidextrous

Organizations


In the Gap, we must be Ambidextrous!


• The pursuit of two different modes of leading and learning:

1. Exploitation = using current resources and capabilities in an efficient and reliable fashion to head in the same direction

استخدام = , الستغاللالحالية والقدرات المواردبها وموثوق فعالة بطريقةنفس في السير إلىاالتجاه

2. Exploration = searching for , acquiring and developing new resources and capabilities to go in a new direction

عن = البحث استكشافالموارد وتطوير واكتسابللذهاب الجديدة والقدرات

جديد اتجاه في

The Ambidextrous Organization!


Mission Focus

Opportunity Focus

Leadership Behavior

Entrepreneurial Behavior

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Task 2Think Like a

Strategic Leader


Thinking in a strategic way


Means that Leaders are:

Mentally Agile –they can use synthesis as well as analysis, linear as well as nonlinear thinking, critical as well as creative thinking skills as appropriate to finding the future or problem solutions and/or to see old issues with new eyes.

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Leaders must have the capability to understand and rapidly adapt to changes in their environment.

In the Gap!

Unfortunately, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“Think Different”

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Causal Reasoning

High

HighLow

S t ra te g i c T h i n k i n g

Managerial Thinking

Entrepreneurial Thinking


The Genesis of Strategic Thinking

Causal ReasoningAnalytical

CriticalLinear

Strategic ReasoningAnalytical

CriticalSynthetic

IntegrativeAdaptive Creative

Innovative

Effectual Reasoning

AdaptiveCreative

Innovative

To Take the Strategic Thinking Questionnaire (STQ)


http://thestrategicleader.org/content/take-stq

Managerial Thinking

Strategic Thinking Entrepreneurial Thinking

Managerial Role Predict what will happen next, target individuals who can help them.

Navigate by focusing on their identity, knowledge, and relationships.

Pursue ideas and push through reality to create new opportunities.

Guiding Question What SHOULD I do? What CAN I do and SHOULD I do it?

What CAN I do?

Outcome Share in existing market.Outcomes are fixed.

Shares in existing markets or creating new markets based on opportunities that arise.

Creates new market.Outcomes are not fixed or limited.

Ideas on Profit/Loss Focus on defined strategies to maximize returns

Focus on maximizing returns and affordable loss.

Focus on affordable loss.

Ideas on Competition Focus on analyzing competition in red ocean.

Focus on both analyzing competition, finding blue oceans, and creating strategic alliances.

Focus on creating strategic alliances and finding blue oceans.


Managerial Thinking


M1

GOAL

M2

M3

M4

M5


The Aim is to become more enterprising / entrepreneurial

Entrepreneurial Thinking

األعمال ريادة التفكير


O1

O2

O3

O4

O5

Making something out of Nothing شيء ال من شيء صنعby using Creative Reasoning to Imagine numerous possibilities with the means available.

Understand The Power of Mindsets

Frame Dominance

إChange

Be Flexible

SenseBe Wise

LearnBe Curious

Think in a Strategic Way!

استراتيجية بطريقة !التفكير


http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/02/the-5-whys.html

The Minds we Need

Learn –. Search for information through reading, observing, and doing. Spot and seize new ideas and game- changing opportunities that can shape the organizations competitive advantage. Be curious.

Change – Open to New Ideas. See the organization as a whole and understand how various parts of the organization relate to and affect each other. Be Flexible

Sense – Perceive variation in the environment, social relationships, readiness to change, take the right action at the right time. Discern meaning among events and bits of information that at first glance would appear to be isolated. Be Wise.

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The Minds we Need!

“The greatest sin in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo EmersonAwareness Test


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

Picture This


A True Story


Leadership is always situated within a context !

Frame Dominance!

“You need to understand what sandbox you are playing in."

Ferdinand de Lessups


The Skills that enable Leaders

to think Strategically


The Strategic Thinking Skills

Reflection

ReframingSystems Thinking

Analytical

Creative

Divergent

Synthesis

Intuitive

Critical

Evaluative

Integrative

Pragmatic

Tactical

Reasoning

Practical

StrategicSolutions

Future

Forward

Convergent

Deductive

Inductive

Holistic

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Strategic Thinking Skills

Description

Systems Thinking

Systems thinking refers to the leader’s ability to see systems holistically by understanding the properties, forces, patterns and interrelationships that shape the behavior of the system, which hence provides options for action.

Reflecting

Reflecting refers to the leader’s ability to weave logical and rational thinking, through the use of perceptions, experience and information, to make judgments on what has happened, and creation of intuitive principles that guide future actions.

Reframing

Reframing refers to the leader’s ability to switch attention across multiple perspectives, frames, mental models, and paradigms to generate new insights and options for actions.

Table 1 Subscales of the Strategic Thinking Questionnaire (STQ)


Task 3Leading like a Strategic

Leader



Thinking is not enough

كافية ليست التفكير

The ability to think is a necessary condition for effective

leadership. However,

“Leadership must inevitably be performed through action, not cognition”

(Denison et al. (1995, p. 524).

خالل " من القيادة يؤديها أن حتما يجباإلدراك وليس "العمل

Definitions

Leader 1. A person who influences

a group of people towards the achievement of a goal.

2. A person who produces change and movement, establishes direction, aligns people and structures, and focuses on results.

Leadership1. Leadership is a process

of social influence which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.

2. Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader and shared by followers.


Superordinates Bosses, Boards, Superiors

CustomersInternal and External Users

SubordinatesDirect and Indirect ReportsStaff , Teams, Subunits

Supporters/BlockersApprovers, Politicians, Competitors, Partners

The Problem with Leadership Theories


Acting in a strategic way


Means that Strategic Leaders are:

Behaviorally Agile – They use a wide array of influence actions –

Transforming – Managing – Bonding – Bridging – Bartering –

to assure that the organization’s purpose is accomplished.

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At times, the Leader exerts influence by use task and relationship behaviors

At still other times, they use power, authority,

persuasion, bargaining, and incentives

ExpectationMuch like an Artist, Leaders will apply an integrated set of leader influence actions to maintain stability and challenge the status quo simultaneously.

At other times, they seek to articulate common values,

direction to gain commitment

Act in a Strategic Way!


The Skills that enable Leaders to Act Strategically


BondingARTISTRY

Bridging

Bartering

Transforming

Managing

Artistry

The Driver of the Strategic Actions


There are two directional Influence actions

There are three maneuvering [weaving] actions

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Take Strategic Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ)

http://thestrategicleader.org/take-Strategic-Leadership-Questionaire


SL Influence Actions

Description

Managing Actions taken to maintain consistency in order that current

organizational goals are accomplished efficiently and effectively.

Transforming

Actions taken to influence direction, actions, and opinions in order to change organizational conditions and culture so that learning and change occur as a normal routine of the organization.

Bonding

Actions taken to ensure that trust is an attribute of the system and not just something developed among individuals in order that followers' exhibit emotional commitment to the organization's aspirations and values.

BridgingActions are taken to develop alliances with people of power

and influence from outside and inside the organization in order to gain insights, support, and resources.

BarteringActions taken to give something in exchange in order

to strengthen the effectiveness of relationships and alliance building efforts.

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Picture This



You need to Do Something Like This القبيل هذا !ن

SLers Lead with a profound sense of the importance of Stability. They keep their balance by maneuvering and adjusting - adjust – adjust and then try to move forward.

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Task 4

Trust the Process


Trust the ProcessA Process is a systematic series of interdependent actions or steps taken in

order to achieve a particular end.

A اإلجراءات من سلسلة عن عبارة هو عمليةاتخذت التي الخطوات أو المترابطة المنهجية

معينة غاية تحقيق أجل .من


Strategic Leaders use a Process called the SL Method to work in a strategic way.

تسمى عملية تستخدم االستراتيجية خياراتاستراتيجية SL الطريقة بطريقة .للعمل

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Working in a Strategic Way


Means that Leaders:

Trust the Process –

They are able to use the habits that comprise the strategic leadership method – Anticipating environmental change , Articulating a statement of intent, Aligning people, processes, and structures, and Assuring that the organization produces the intents it seeks and to enable the organization to find its future and make it happen.

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AnticipatingAnticipate Change

Ask: What is going on here?

ArticulatingCreate Direction, a Shared

Reality, Set StrategiesAsk, What needs to happen

here?Aligning

Connect with people, Create Conditions for success, remove

barriers, establish trustAsk, How do we make it happen?

AssuringFocus on results - Hire for technical and cultural fit – Teach the organization's POV Ask, How do we keep making it happen?

The Strategic Leader Method (SLM)


Picture This


The SL Method

What is going on here?

What needs to happen

here?

How do we make it happen?

How do we keep making it happen?



Seminar Summary Activity (see Handout)

The Tasks of Strategic Leaders• Building Ambidextrous Organizations• Employing Strategic Thinking• Using a Multifaceted Set of Leader Influence Actions• Trusting the Process by using the SL Method

Directions:

1.As an Individual, think about which tasks are most important for (1) you to Personally develop your capacity, and (2) your Organization or Work Unit’s capacity to innovate, grow, achieve? Provide specific examples.

2.As a group, discuss your examples to begin to clarify that the four tasks are understood and what they mean in practice.

3.Discuss practical ways that you and your organization can develop the capacity to accomplish the tasks of strategic leaders

4.List your ideas for each task on a large sheet of paper.

The Duty of Strategic Leaders is to Find the Future and Make it Happen!

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