BUS 653 - Strategic Leadership (3)

(Cross-referenced with LDR 653.)

The goal of this course is to provide students with both analytical frameworks and inspiring postures to help them define a strategy for a given organization. The Strategic Leadership approach is based on the intuition that “the more unpredictable the environment, the greater the opportunity-if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it”. A leader, when effective is able to do all the following things: think strategically and navigate the unknown effectively, keep on learning about oneself, recognize one’s inner aspirations, ask inspiring questions, interpret from different angles, make decisions according to conscious trade-offs, risks, and unintended consequences for customers and other constituencies, pinpoint and address conflicting interests among stakeholders, and to communicate stories about success and failure to promote institutional learning. This is the art of strategic leadership.