At MCE we wanted to know what Leadership – other than setting a strategy - really needed to achieve.
We therefore surveyed 1,600 executives and managers of global companies, and while they all confirmed that “formulating the strategy” was the number one task they all faced, their top three priorities after that focused on the people side of leadership.
This meant:
1. Communicating the strategy
2. Ensuring strategy implementation
3. Getting results
The conclusion from the survey is that a leader’s job is about much more than setting the strategy. It is about being very clear on the direction the company is heading, and then setting up the processes and people policies to motivate and help people take the company in that direction.
The keys to good leadership lie in communicating and getting buy-in to the strategy, and in making sure that the decisions and actions people take are in alignment with the strategic direction of the organization.
