TITLE:
Leadership Strategy and Organizational Outcomes: A Review of Literature
AUTHORS:
Musa Otieno Obuba
KEYWORDS:
Leadership Strategy, Organizational Leadership, Modern Technology, COVID-19 Pandemic, Organizational Outcome
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Leadership,
Vol.11 No.2,
April
24,
2022
ABSTRACT: This
paper is research on leadership strategy and specifically scrutinizing the
reasons why most organizations fail to successfully implement their strategic
plans. To guarantee a successful organizational outcome, it is important to
trace the paths others have walked, those who have succeeded as well as those
that have not. And more important during this era and age of technology, could
there be something new a leader needs to consider? Several literatures are on
strategic leadership, but only very few looks at a strategy execution— leadership strategy. Leadership definition has been evolving, the need to a new approach to strategy implementation is
therefore inevitable. A leader must therefore keenly take into consideration
the different working environment that follows the dictates of modernism.
Services like procurement, recruitment, performance evaluation are
technologically driven in this age and era. Following these realities, a review
of existing materials points to a new way of leadership strategy, one that seems to incline so much towards modern technology. It is evident that modern
technology largely has a huge space in determining organizational outcomes.
Leadership strategies are it for a new business or an existing one, for a large organization or
small must therefore take into consideration these realities. This literature
review has picked on critical aspects of what a leader does to plan and successfully
execute the plan. While it could be considered as a new norm, the fact though
is that using technology is age long only that the modern types are new
inventions that have taken the centerstage. The
COVID-19 pandemic has also not only brought about so much pain but has
completely changed the way things are done. In a world where “lock-down”,
working from home and social distances seem to be the order of the day, a
leader must therefore have new innovative ideas. As William Pollard once said, “Learning
and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what
you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” (Sinquefield, 2013).