Leadership Strategy and Organizational Outcomes: A Review of Literature

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).