David L. Rainey / David LRainey
Full-Spectrum Strategic Leadership: Being on the Cutting Edge through Innovative Solutions, IntegratedSystems, and Enduring Relationships articulates how strategic leaders, senior managers, business professionals,aspiring young business leaders, and management students can make dramatic improvements intheir endeavors, enrich their knowledge and capabilities, and learn the essential perspectives of strategicleadership and management. In today’s world, strategic leaders regardless of venue have to be confident intheir aspirations, holistic in their perspectives, proactive in their strategies and actions, and lead changeahead of the prevailing driving forces. Full-spectrum strategic leadership (FSL) is about being on the cuttingedge and leading from the front and ahead of changes in the business environment. It involves creatingunique solutions, developing effective and efficient systems, and building enduring relationships with people.Astute strategic leader embrace opportunities, overcome challenges, and eliminate threats before othersare even aware of the underpinnings of change. They are capable, confident, and courageous when developingand deploying strategic innovations. Strategic innovations are essential in creating sustainable successand extraordinary outcomes.The book examines cutting-edge leadership and management constructs and practices. It describes how to create value across space and time and howto sustain success in a more turbulent and global business world. It explores how to lead change through insights, imagination, and innovativeness. Itdescribes what a solution is and how to design, develop, validate, and deploy solutions that are on the cutting edge. It details how to establish integratedvalue systems that are inclusive and how to build enduring relationships. The book describes theories, constructs, models, insights, and practicesbased on multifaceted perspectives and holistic management. Given the current level of obsolesces in theories and practices in today’s business world,FSL presents cutting-edge leadership and management constructs for becoming more sophisticated and successful in a turbulent business world. Giventhe prevailing business realities, strategic leaders are creating, innovating, developing, improving, growing, and sustaining success or they are fallinghopelessly behind.FSL is the never-ending desire to accomplish more and provide more beneficial outcomes for people. Itis based on the recognition that good is never good enough, that the needs, wants, and expectations oftomorrow are expected to be more challenging than those of today, and that strategic leaders have toprovide solutions to the myriad of problems, concerns and issues. It is also based on the multifacetedperspective that such challenges are really opportunities for excelling and creating value for everyone.Truly great strategic leaders provide solutions and systems that maximize the positives and minimize thenegatives. They embrace corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and sustainable success. Trulygreat leaders make the world a better place.