Strategic Leadership and the Strategic Management Process

The complex changes of the 21st century at the global level determine a steady increase in the competitiveness of organizations, a new managerial organization, requiring the creation and adoption of new measures, attitudes, skills and abilities that would lead to the achievement of the desired objectives. The human factor is essential. The changes, viewed as an interactive, complex and nonlinear process, undermine all the traditional assumptions of organizational management. The dominant methods used fail to take into account these subtle aspects. The leadership relationships have to deal with such changes, be conditioned by a firm understanding of the external environment of the organization and a good control of the decisions that the organization can make internally. This paper presents a few reflections on the role of leadership relationships that involve new perspectives and forms of strategic management process.