Strategic Leadership Session 5

Challenger Case Study

The Challenger case study shows not just effective strategic leadership things in an organisation, but more importantly opposite, the ineffective strategic leadership and its outcomes. The collaboration, moral obligation, two way communication between staff and management and etc are the key things going towards effective strategic leadership. As case study shows these were the tools NASA and Morton Thiokol were missing and as a result it lead to the failure of the mission.

This is the link to the one of the articles available online with clear, short description of the Challenger launch. http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceshuttle/challenger_disaster.html

Another intersting article emphasizing on mistakes of the shuttle launch program.  http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1694/1

Strategic Leadership Session 4

Using strategy models to analyse organisations 

      Main focus of this lecture was to take into consideration range of models and frameworks that can be used to analyse the organisation and adapt them to the case study.

Analysing the Madonna case study let us understand the different frameworks and strategies she has used during the period of time to keep her at the peak of her carrier and continue to grow in different sectors as not just the artist, but as a successful business woman.

Case study shows how important is an effective strategic leadership for a company or even a person. From the facts of Madonna career we can see how incorporation of different strategic leadership tools can lead to being always aware of the market position and needs, staying at the top during different times and finding the ways to continuously expand in such a competitive environment.