For your Portfolio Project, you will utilize knowledge about strategic leadershipandknowledge managementand provide for the Portfolio Project an essay that addresses the following aspects:
The Nature of Strategic Leadership
Within this section, explain and discuss how the nature of strategic leadership is critical to the success of the leadership of a firm. Be sure to address the following points for this section:
Explain and describe the nature of strategic leadership.
Why is high-level cognitive activity of a leader important?
How and why should a leader gather multiple inputs to formulate a strategic direction?
How does a leader anticipate creating a future to address the unknown?
Why is revolutionary and contrarian thinking important for the leadership team?
Explain why creating a vision is critical to the success of the leadership of a firm and address the pros and cons of not having a vision.
Explain how leadership can determine and measure the effectiveness of strategy direction.
As the CEO of a firm, explain how you would implement the strategic direction and factors that will cause revising the strategic direction for your firm.
Conducting a SWOT Analysis
Within this section, explain and discuss how a SWOT Analysis can assist the leadership team develop and implement a strategic direction.
Be sure to address the following points for this section:
Internal strengths
Internal weaknesses
External opportunities
External threats
Lesson Learned
Within this section, explain and discuss how lessons learned from the research can assist you, as a CEO, to develop and implement a strategic direction for your firm. Be sure to address the following points for this section:
Provide at least two examples of successful business strategies and explain why these business strategies were successful.
Provide at least two examples of unsuccessful business strategies and explain why these business strategies were unsuccessful.
Explain and describe, as the CEO of your firm, how you would contribute to the management knowledge and the learning organization.
The portfolio project is an 8-10 page research paper (approximately 3,500 words). Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements when formatting and documenting your sources.
Your final paper will be graded not only on content, but also on the quality of your writing, including syntax and grammar. It is highly recommended you closely proofread your assignment prior to submission.