Strategic Leadership

Abstract

AbstractSince today’s businesses generally try to survive by struggling in the red oceans, they have to make decisions (with incomplete information) in an environment of constant uncertainty or in conditions that lose their certainty in a very short period of time. For this reason, the classical and traditional managerial characteristics of business managers are not sufficient for the management of businesses operating in such environments. The long and the short of the matter, there is a need for leader managers who have the appropriate behavior and management skills in all conditions, who are capable of solving problems in an environment dominated by complexity and chaos, creative, strategic thinker, in a visionary structure that can adapt his enterprise to change and transformation, open to cooperation, communication and negotiations, supporting doing the right thing, using ethics as base, supervising when necessary to get the job done right. Leaders having these skills, which we can express as strategic leadership skills, are more and more important for organizations. When the studies on this subject and the theories that contribute to the literature are reviewed, although the basic points are similar, it is seen that there are different perspectives and different models are put forward. It is thought that each of the models discussed in this section will provide benefits to businesses in different ways and can be used in practices according to needs.KeywordsStrategic leadershipManagerialTransformationalPoliticalEthicalCommunicative