1. The Strategic Significance of Leadership
Manifesting Greatness Through
Strategic Leadership
Presented By
Art Jackson
ENPM, Inc.

2. Strategic … Significance … Leadership …

3. My Bold Prediction “The organizations that will be the most significant in the years going forward … The ones that will manifest their intended level of greatness … Will be the ones that implement the best strategic leadership!”

4. The Definition of Greatness
“wealth, position and power are no measures of greatness; what we become and what we could have been, those among us who close that gap, those are the ones we will consider great” Dr. Benjamin E. Mays - Morehouse University
“Closing the gap between who you are and who you were created to be.”
ENPM

5. The Challenge To Greatness
“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein
The Challenge To Greatness
ENPM

6. Three Types Of People
Can & Don’t
Can & Do
Can’t & Don’t

7. Troy

8. The Story The Trojans
Hector
Priam
King of Troy
Paris

9. Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The Story The Greeks
Achilles
Odysseus
Agamemnon & Menelaus
Kings of Sparta & Mycenae

10. The Story One Other Greek
Helen

11. And Then …
The Manure Hit The Fan!

12. Strategic Leaders
Priam
King of Troy
The City of Troy
Ocean
Hector

13. The Strategy Priam King of Troy Hector The City of Troy Kill Zone
Ocean
Hector

14. Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The Greek Strategy
Agamemnon & Menelaus
Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The City of Troy
Kill
Zone
Ocean
Achilles
Odysseus

15. The ‘New’ Trogan Strategy
Agamemnon & Menelaus
Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The City of Troy
Kill
Zone
Ocean
Achilles
Odysseus

16. Leadership & Strategy!
The City of Troy
Kill
Zone
Ocean

17. The Strategic Significance of Leadership – Agenda
The Great Challenges
Leadership
Strategic Planning
Leading the Strategic Planning Process
The Strategic Leadership Process

18. The Three-Legged Hog Challenge!

19. The Great Challenges!

20. The Perspective Challenge

21. The ‘Body of Knowledge’ Challenge
Leaders cannot learn enough … Fast enough …
And do enough on their own
To effectively define, implement, and re-execute.

22. For Organizations to WIN!
Leaders Must Rely …
On the prepared minds of all team members throughout the organization!

23. Three Types Of People
Can & Don’t
Can & Do
Can’t & Don’t

24. Three Types Of People
Can’t & Don’t
Can & Don’t

25. The ‘1’ Thing Exercise City Slickers
What is the most important thing for your team to accomplish over the next 12 months?
Why?

26. Leadership

27. “Kingdoms Have Been Lost … For The Lack Of Strategic Leadership!”
What are you trying to accomplish?
What’s your SWOTL status?
What will it look like when you arrive?

28. “Kingdoms Have Been Lost … For The Lack Of Strategic Leadership!”
What are the challenges you will face?
Is everyone on your team … On your team?

29. Definitions
“Leadership is the art, the talent, the skill, the ability to get others to do those things they do not naturally or normally want to do.”
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

30. Strategic Leadership Is …
The ability to influence others to voluntarily make decisions that enhance the organization’s long-term success while maintaining long-term financial stability.
The ability to focus the organization during the process of deciding purpose (mission) and the best practices that are critical for remaining competitive and relevant.

31. Strategic Leadership Is …
The ability to think differently about how to marshal resources and deliver services;
The ability to balance the analytical perspective with the human dimension perspective;
Abоut the сарасity to liѕten аnd оbѕerve;

32. Strategic Leadership Is …
Using expertise аѕ а ѕtаrting роint tо enсоurаge diаlоgue about рrосeѕѕeѕ, values and vision at all levels of the organization;
Generating rather than following consensus;
Initiating strategic сhаnge that makes for significant improvement!

33. The Main Goals of Your Strategic Leadership Efforts
Manifesting greatness by maximizing performance
Getting everyone … Everyone … Participating!
Creating an ever changing and adapting environment

34. The Main Goals of Your Strategic Leadership Efforts
Forging a ‘steel-hard team’
Distributing power
Developing trust
Creating ‘strategic leaders’!

35. Characteristics of Strategic Leaders
Technical ability with a strategic orientation;
Translate strategy into action;
Align people and organizations;

36. Characteristics of Strategic Leaders
Determine effective strategic intervention points;
Displays a certain dissatisfaction or restlessness with the present (Eyes are always on the horizon, not just on the near at hand);
Have ‘absorptive capacity’;

37. Characteristics of Strategic Leaders
Adaptive capacity (the ability to work with change)
And …
Wisdom (Davis, 2004).”

38. Strategic Leaders …
“Align systems, culture, and organizational structure
To ensure consistency with the strategy.” (Beatty and Quinn, 2010, p. 7).

39. Strategic Leadership Competencies Include …
Both strategy formulation and implementation;
A sense of direction;
The ability to build ownership (Buy-in);
The ability to implement change.

40. Seven Principles of Strategic Leadership (Quong and Walker)
1. Have a future orientation;
2. Research to generate evidence;
3. Get things done;
4. Open new horizons;

41. Seven Principles of Strategic Leadership (Quong and Walker)
5. Ensure all leaders are actually ‘fit to lead’;
6. Generate partnership with the entire team; and
7. Do the ‘Next Right Thing’.

42. Leading The Strategic Planning Process

43. “This is a football.”

44. The Big Difference Between Surviving and Thriving is … The Impartation of ‘An Inspired Vision’

45. The General Process
Vision
Mission
Values

46. Answers The Key Questions
"What do we do?"
“Who do we do it for?"
"How do we manifest greatness doing it?"

47. Closing!

48. Final Questions

49. The Significance of Strategic Leadership … ?
Life Can Be Painful Without It!

50. Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The Change!
Agamemnon & Menelaus
Kings of Sparta & Mycenae
The City of Troy
Kill
Zone
Ocean
Achilles
Odysseus

51. Strategic … Significance … Leadership …

52. My Bold Prediction “The organizations that will be the most significant in the years going forward … The ones that will manifest their intended level of greatness … Will be the ones that implement the best strategic leadership!”

53. “The Only Place Where Greatness and Significance Comes Before …
Hard Work
Leadership
And Strategy …
Is In The Dictionary!”

54. “The saddest words of tongue or pen
It’s Been A Pleasure
“The saddest words of tongue or pen
are the ones that list …
what might have been”
‘ Just Be Great’!

55. To Contact ENPM, Inc. or Art Jackson
Eagles Nest Performance Management, Inc.
Strategic Planning and Implementation
Training
Organizational Development
Performance Management and Coaching
14540 Colony Creek Ct. Woodbridge, VA 22193 w

56. References
Beatty, K., & Quinn, L. (2010). Strategic Command Taking the Long View for Organizational Success. Leadership In Action, 30(1), 3-7.
Rowe, W. G. (2001). Creating Wealth in Organizations: The Role of Strategic Leadership. The Academy of Management Executive,

57. References
Davies, Barbara J. & Davies, Brent (2004) Strategic leadership School Leadership & Management, Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2004 Washingborough Foundation Primary and Nursery School, UK; University of Hull, UK
Quong, Terry & Walker, Allan (2010) Seven Principles of Strategic Leadership International Studies and Education Administration (ISEA) Volume 38, Number 1, 2010