Leadership
• Why do we need leadership in any institution
and in our institution?
Leadership takes us from the gap between
current reality and the intended future
Strategic Thinking (aka Leadership)
The Liedtka Model
Jeanne Liedtka
www.csun.edu/bus302/Course/Materials/Cases/strategic.thinking.pdf
Jeanne M. Liedtka, Professor of Business Administration
B.S., Boston University; M.B.A., Harvard University; D.B.A., Boston University
University of Virginia, Darden Business School
Liedtka Model
Systems Perspective
• enables individuals to clarify their role within the larger
system [institution] and the impact of their behaviour on
other parts of the system
Intent Focussed
• sense of: direction, discovery, destiny
Intelligent Opportunism
• communication and interaction around ideas and
possibilities – weaving up and down the organisation
Thinking in Time
• uses the institution’s memory and current context as inputs
to the creation of its future
“It all comes down to the ability … to see both
the big picture and the operational implications,
which are signs of outstanding leaders…”
(L. Heracleous 1998)