Rethinking Strategic Leadership: Strategic Capabilities for Leaders

Rethinking Strategic Leadership: Strategic Capabilities for Leaders

Facing a difficult decision where each option promises profits and raises risks, executives remain spell-bound by paradox. Do or don’t – doomed either way. Confronted with such proliferating tensions, executives can feel daunted and sum up their predicament as: “all is changing, only I am the same”.

In the shiny new world of AI, Big Data and unbounded connectivity, some may fear that they are stuck with only their ‘grey matter’. In order to meet demanding shareholders and stakeholders’ goals, executives must continuously seek new solutions. However, many externalise their search by hunting and gathering trendy tools, latest management techniques and quick fixes, when they would be better to reflect with calm. Many executives’ greatest assets: perspectives, patterns and practices, remain uncultivated for too long.

Advanced strategic thinking can help leaders to face a world of paradox and make the right strategic choices even under great uncertainty. Eight strategic capabilities enable leaders to tend their greatest assets and unlock those of their extended teams and organisation to regain competitive advantage.

On 2 July 2019 at ‘Strategic Capabilities for Leaders’ we would like to share the evidence and explore with you which capabilities might be most critical for you:

• ‘You owe yourself’

• ‘Really seeing reality’

• Holding tensions as sources of strategic options

• Creating context to generate competitive advantage

• Shifting organisations to their future design.

Who should attend?

• Senior executives wanting to slow down to accelerate, reflect and renew their approach to strategic leadership

• Members of top management teams who seek to lead their peers to new heights in corporate performance

• Senior leaders wanting to reconnect with research, recharge and pick up new insights on how to lead transformations

• Those preparing to take positions at the peak of their organisations, seeking to prepare their business for a future of continuous learning and innovation.

Your hosts for the evening:

• Professor Patrick Reinmoeller, Professor of Strategic Management, Cranfield School of Management

• Plus members of the Cranfield Executive Development team.

Agenda:

Overview: introducing Cranfield Executive Development
Leading the way in executive management development

Strategic Capabilities for Leaders
Experience our approach and gain insights into how Cranfield Executive Development provides new solutions to key strategic leadership challenges

Pre-booked one-to-one executive development conversations
Your opportunity to discuss personal and organisational development plans
Networking and canapés

Cranfield @ Brand Exchange: Leadership Series Events

Cranfield Executive Development, embedded in a University that has been creating leaders in technology and management for over 70 years, launched the Cranfield @ Brand Exchange: Leadership Series in 2019.

Gain exclusive access to complimentary, invite-only thought leadership events, presented by world-renowned Cranfield thought leaders and hosted at Brand Exchange, an exclusive members’ only club in central London.

Each event will be themed around the challenges and trends of a key leadership topic. Join senior leaders across a wide range of industries to be part of the discussion that matters.

These events also provide an exclusive opportunity for a one-to-one conversation with one of our learning professionals to discuss executive development for you and across your organisation.