The Strategic Leader's Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy

Michael Useem · Harbir Singh

Nov 2016 · Ascent Audio · Narrated by Walter Dixon

About this audiobook

“We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.”
—Harbir Singh & Michael Useem

Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively navigate the challenges that lay ahead for today’s organizations.

The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap, by Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem, offers a 6-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

Drawing on one-on-one interviews with CEOs, in-depth research, and their experience teaching today’s executives and tomorrow’s leaders, Singh and Useem take readers into the offices—and mindsets—of some of today’s foremost strategic leaders, including:
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan
Indra Nooyi, chief executive of PepsiCo
Jack Ma, founder and chief executive of Alibaba Group
John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco Systems

Fast-moving and inspiring, The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap will enable leaders at all levels to master today’s most vital capability.

About the author

Michael Useem is professor of management, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, and faculty director of the McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His books include Fortune Makers, The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Boards That Lead, and The Leader's Checklist.

Walter Dixon is a winner of Audible's "#1 Editor's Choice and Customer Favorites" award. The narrator of more than 200 audiobooks, he has performed on stage in stand-up comedy, theater, and opera productions. He has also voiced animated features, vintage radio dramas, and audio tours for the Guggenheim and other museums.