Democratic And Strategic Leadership

Democratic and strategic leadership

 Introduction

Rosalynn Carter, former first lady in the United States said: “A good leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader leads them where they don’t necessarily want to go, but they must be ”. Leadership requires moving people in the direction of developing the potential in them. Strategic leadership seeks to implement the development of plans and strategies to guide people towards the proposed goals and thus achieve success.

Developing

Possibly the eldest faced by the business world, according to Leitch, Lancefield & Dawson, "how to develop and retain leaders who can guide their organization to a fundamental change over time". Every day companies face global, economic and technological changes, before this panorama arises the need for leaders who can create and develop plans and strategies to face the changes. Strategic leaders who have the ability to make decisions, who have the ability to connect with people, have conductive skills to guide the team and be able to project themselves in the goal.

Analysis of the situation

In this analysis of this case, we will first establish the characteristics of the strategic leader in the cyber article 10 Principles of strategic leadership, is divided into 3 areas: systems and structure;people, policies and practices and concentrate on being. In the system and structure area we have the distribution of responsibility, honesty and be open about information and create multiple routes and try ideas.

A leader must be able to distribute responsibility, to train all personnel of all levels in decision making. The leader must be honest and open about the information for the flow of constant and not limited information. True information creates growth opportunities. Developing multiple routes to create and try ideas is the basis of strategic leadership, it is to take advantage of creativity. To develop plans and course to follow. 

In the area of people, policies and practices it has to do with ways of thinking about evaluation, hiring and training. We have to keep in mind that failure is safe, it is called fast failure in companies, so you have to learn from mistakes. Once Thomas Alva Edison was asked, who feels to have failed ninety -nine to make a bulb, to which he replied did not fail, but I found ninety -nine ways of not making a bulb. That is why we must always examine and correct. 

The other characteristic is to provide access to other strategists, part of the success of strategic leadership is teamwork and recognizing the capacities of your classmates and the operation that they offer you as support. As the said two heads say they think better than a. We have to hire for transformation. When the hiring decision is made, we have to take and very carefully the capacities and experiences, we look for results with the best person suitable for doing tasks. 

The last area is to concentrate on being, it is simply to enhance strategic leaders with tactics to evolve them on a personal level. It carries all your being to work, is to deposit all its passion and energy to not only give one hundred percent, but to give the extra mile. Find time to reflect. Double circuit learning should be used. 

Is to make a self-assessment of the situation, prejudices and assumptions that it has, and include the non -discernible ones. According to Leitch, Lancefield & Dawso must ask these questions: why did I make that decision? What are the implications? What would make different the next time? How am I going to apply this learning in the future? To have a personal improvement in decision making. Finally, recognize leadership development as a continuous practice. Life is a complete learning and every day new forms of innovations come out that contribute to improve leadership, so that professional growth in leadership is important.

The effectiveness of the strategic leader

The effectiveness of the strategic leader, according to Fernández-Poblete, focuses on being prepared to face the challenges, have a strategic plan, develop a service leadership and want to serve others. Fernández-Poblete’s vision focuses on developing the human factor, incorporating work team ideas, quality and participatory administration, taking into account potential that everyone will contribute to face the changes.

So that strategic leadership is efficient must develop business administration functions. Strategies must turn to planning, organization, management and control. All effort and strategies must focus on these four functions. "Planning is the process through which the goals and objectives of a company are developed and once defined where you want to get there and how we are going to achieve the proposal".

 Is to visualize the future of the company and ask ourselves. What resource will I need? And where am I going to get it? This function is important because it determines how to achieve the objectives, which I want to obtain. The planning process involves decisions, objectives, projects and strategies. According to Cruz-Chimal, “the organization is a set of rules, positions, behaviors that have to respect all the people within the company, the main function of the organization is to dispose and coordinate all available resources such as human,Materials and financial ". Is to establish the steps and procedures to follow.

For Cruz-Chimal, "the direction as a stage of the administrative process includes the influence of the administrator on the realization of plans, obtaining a positive response from its employees through communication, supervision and motivation". In its article administrative process: planning, organization, direction and control, it tells us that the management has several elements, which are: execution of the plans according to the organizational structure, the motivation, the guidance or conduction of the efforts of the efforts of thesubordinates, communication, supervision and achieve the goals of the organization. Each of these elements will help us direct the goals, aimed at achieving achievements.

Control is the last stage of business administrative functions and is responsible for evaluating the development of each function in the process of obtaining the established goals. According to Cruz-Chimal, “although a company has magnificent plans, an adequate organizational structure and an efficient direction, the Executive will not be able to verify what the real situation of the organization is if there is no mechanism that makes sure and report if the facts are goingAccording to the objectives ". In other words is to verify, regulate, compare the process.

conclusion

Strategic leadership is vital for companies in a globalized and so changing organizational world, in terms of economy and technology. It is necessary to have a view of the future, creating strategies and updating new innovations. The success of strategic leadership focuses on how to establish strategies for business administrative functions: planning, organization, management and control. Before the changes arises the need for strategic leadership.