STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP TRAITS
BY: KOMAL DASH
20FMUCHH010250
Strategic leadership is a practice in which executives, using different
styles of management, develop a vision for their organization that
enables it to adapt to or remain competitive. The main objective of
strategic leadership is strategic productivity. Another aim of strategic
leadership is to develop an environment in which employees forecast
the organization’s needs in context of their own job. n a changing
economic and technological climate.
Important strategic leadership qualities:
Innovative - An innovative leader is not a creative genius with
thought-provoking ideas but gives others the freedom to
develop their ideas. Innovative people are always open to new
ideas and discussions. They listen to everyone actively and also
motivate others to think out of the box.
Honesty - One of the essential leadership qualities is the
possession of honesty. Honesty is expected from leaders to
garner trust and respect from people for reliability.
Communication and Listening skills - An effective leader knows
how to put across his message. They are very conscious and
learn from others’ behaviors, which gives them a deep
understanding of human complexities. Good leaders listen to
people with great attention and sincerity. It helps them
understand people and their perspectives.
Passion - Passionate leaders elevate productivity and ensure
that the employees commit to their vision. Passion helps
leaders to instill motivation in their employees and helps to
achieve the desired vision.
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Emotional Intelligence - Good leaders are self-aware, act in
control, take calculated decisions without getting carried away.
They understand other's perspectives without being cynical.
Delegation- The ability to delegate effectively is a good
leadership quality. A good leader who knows how to delegate
wisely and make the best out of it. Delegation is crucial for
maximizing productivity and team performance.
Leadership traits of:
Mark Zuckerberg - Co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark
Zuckerberg embodies the characteristics of a transformational
leader. He is known as being a motivator who inspires his staff of
employees with a clear vision of the company’s future. He further
defines the steps necessary to achieve such goals needed.
He Communicates and is Available: The “Zuck Reviews”
described way back at bullet number one of this article speak
to Zuckerberg’s commitment to effective and regular
communication. Zuckerberg stays engaged without micro-
managing, the trademark of a great leader.
He Empowers Employees: Employees at Facebook are able to
act in creative ways outside the confines of bureaucracy and
tradition that exist at many other larger companies.
He has a Clear Vision: Mark Zuckerberg’s life’s ambition is to
create a more open and connected world and his commitment
to that goal is unwavering.
Hard worker: Mark Zuckerberg knows what he wants, and
when he gets engaged in something, he never loses his focus.
He can continuously work for the betterment of his company or
on a new idea. it is hard work, which made him to all these
things he has done till today.
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Larry Page- Lawrence Edward Page is an American business
magnate, computer scientist, and Internet entrepreneur. He is
best known as one of the co-founders of Google.
Decision-making skills: Page’s decision-making skills were
found potentially effective and interesting. Page sets
changes in the existing decision-making system and outlined
a few rules and made a decision-making structure in the
company.
Embracing new challenges: Larry Page is an expert in
embracing new challenges. In 2005, Page decided to invest
in Android and this was a pet project of him in Google from
2005 to 2007. Ignoring Eric Schmidt’s objection, Google
increased its investments in Android with Larry Page’s
support. Later, it turned out successful and Google
successfully defeated Microsoft by conquering the
mainstream operating system in post PC generation.
Communication and listening skills: Page believes that this
skill is very vital in terms of running the company to success.
He lets his employees express their thoughts and how they
are thinking to run the company. He is a good communicator
and he coaches them in a way that everyone knows he is
open to listening to any of the personnel’s thoughts.
Patience and consistency: Larry and his team always try to
do things that they believe will have a huge impact on the
world. Not all of these ideas work, and some of them that do
work take a long time to become a huge success. One of the
innovations of the company that probably everyone has
heard about is Google Maps. However, this technology took
seven years for them to build. They started on this
technology even before phones allowed people to use maps.
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Sergey Brin- Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American business
magnate, computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. Together
with Larry Page, he co-founded Google.
Empower: He is a leader who has not missed the boat on the
concept of helping and empowering employees in order to
help the business.
Perseverance: It took Page some six years to get staff to work
on Google’s book digitization project. It also took several
years to convince others to join his Google Maps with street
view effort. However, despite the time it takes to achieve big
goals, Page perseveres because he wants to make a
difference.
Elon Musk- Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur and business
magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX, CEO
and Product Architect of Tesla.
Innovative: He’s known for being bold with an eye to the
future. And, he expects each and every one of his team
members to innovate alongside him. Musk’s grandiose view
and ambitious goals can be intimidating, but awe-inspiring all
the same.
Fast-acting: He’s known for being opinionated, His fast-acting
nature offers some benefits in terms of business growth and
innovation, but they can also serve as a point of frustration
for his team.
Not scared to fail: One of the many reasons Musk’s
companies can innovate the way they do is because Musk is a
big believer in psychological safety. He knows that his
employees need to feel like they can fail without fear of
repercussions or reprimands. That’s a valuable lesson for any
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leader who wants to spearhead an innovative and boundary-
pushing team.
Strong belief and positive energy: Employees, colleagues,
customers, and investors should feel energized being around
a leader. Musk is highly charismatic with a positive outlook
and optimism for a better future. This is inspirational and it
has allowed him to persist through highly challenging
circumstances in his businesses.
Jeff Bezos- Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media
proprietor, investor, and computer engineer. He is the founder and
executive chairman of Amazon.
Thinks Long Term: When Jeff Bezos started his Amazon.com
business, he had a long term thought of making this business
great in the whole world and he successfully succeeded. He
made it possible because he knew the importance of the
internet at that time and he knew the internet will play vital
roles in human lives.
Risks for Market Leadership: It took Amazon three times to
get its business platform off the ground. He stated that
“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you
have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s
going to work, it’s not an experiment.” From his bold
decisions it is clear that even if they don’t work out, you’ll
learn something for the next time.
Persuasion and Influencing Skills: He sets the values, beliefs,
and principles for his company and then he persuades his
employees to follow these core rules. He also has the skill of
influencing his employees to emphasize on developing and
strengthening their skill set in order to improve their
performance. Bezos has the persuasion skill to encourage his
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employees to develop creative ideas & solutions for
business-related issues.
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Customers Should Come First: Bezos’ one of the best
leadership styles is to focus on the customers rather than on
his competitors. He pays his attention to customer
satisfaction instead of wasting his time to formulate plans to
have leverage over other business.
In business, being a leader doesn’t just fill a job title. One must have
the capacity to motivate the team to enable them to deliver their
tasks in a timely manner and in line with the overall goals of the
company.
Mark Zuckerberg has never followed any structured
leadership. He was both aggressive and encouraging. He did
his best to provide a friendly and relaxed workplace. But his
employees reported him as a bad listener.
Elon Musk admitted during a recent interview, describing
how burdened he is with responsibilities. This inability to
effectively delegate tasks to others and share control reflects
key aspects of bad leadership.
The management strategies implemented in the early phase
of his career and some official decisions had led to the
emergence of ineffective management in Google. The
decision to remove any sort of supervision from the
organizational structure is considered to be the first official
blunder of Larry Page.
Jeff experiences weakness in the competition of Amazon's
Fire phone. Despite the innovative nature and creativity used
by Jeff in Amazon, some of the products are not doing well in
the market. Jeff Bezos focuses on different industries, by
focusing on various industries, he is more likely to experience
challenges in one sector.
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