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Week 8 Assignments

Assignment: Post 8.1 – Day 1-6 of Week 8 – 5%.

Strategic Leadership Competencies

This Week’s Question

All four texts deal with competencies relevant for success in strategically leading organizations.

Galbraith, J. R. (2014) Designing Organizations: strategy, structure, and process at the business unit and enterprise levels. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (pp. 255 – 273)

Hughes R., Colarelli-Beatty K. & Dinwoodie  D. (2014) Becoming a strategic leader. (2nd ed.) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (pp. 268, 269)

Lepsinger  R. (2010) Closing the Execution Gap. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (pp. 205 – 209)

Ungerer, M., Ungerer, G., & Herholdt, J. (2016). Navigating strategic possibilities: strategy formulation and execution practices to flourish. Randburg: KR Publishing. (pp. 36-57)

Looking at the texts where the competencies are outlined:

  1. Detail how you will incorporate these competencies into your organizational practices and why.
  2. Identify the competencies you believe will not work in your organizational practice and why.

Looking at the assigned texts throughout the course:

  1. Identify and critically evaluate the three (3) most important principles you discovered in course readings and how you will incorporate them into your organizational practice.
  2. Identify and critically evaluate the three (3) least important principles you discovered in the course readings and explain why they are irrelevant to your organizational experience and future.
  3. Identify, from your critical evaluation of course texts, the least effective course text material you discovered during your investigation of strategic leadership principles and why you see them as least effective (personally or corporately).

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