A better appreciation of the concept of strategic leadership can be obtained by comparing it with managerial leadership and visionary leadership. Managerial leadership is the one that is exhibited by majority of the executives in most of the organizations. In fact, nearly all the organizations including those of the government have a system of training executives in managerial leadership. Managerial leadership is rule-bound, it is process-based; it relates people according to their roles in the decision-making process. It is impersonal and passive, with a focus on goals.
The current competitive environment, as emerging in the 21st century can be described as technology driven, customer-centric, faster-obsolescent, more unpredictable, turbulent and increasingly complex.
How do we carry our organizations into this cataclysmic, turbulent era? How do we ensure their long-term sustainability? How do we sustain their strategic competitiveness over the coming years? This is the context of exploring the contours of strategic leadership, in clear contrast to the conventional leadership, as the critical resource to steer the organizations into a new era.
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