LDR 5054 - Strategic Thinking and Planning

4 Credit Hours

This course introduces the concept of strategic leadership, to differentiate it from conventional leadership, to identify the obstacles to its success, and to present the steps that can make a strategy a learning process. The focus of the course is to prepare leaders to build a high performing organization while meeting their organization’s simultaneous need for stability and change. The course reviews (a) why leaders fail in current environments, (b) the difference between strategic thinking leaders and managerial leadership, (c) the in-depth understanding and application of strategic leader’s core competencies (habits).

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