Abstract:

The foremost concern for every strategic manager is to enable organization’s exceptional performance through effective planning and efficient implementation of strategies in order to attain competitive advantage on its rivals. Hence, strategic leaders ought to sight the organizational personnel as a vital resource through which various central competencies are made and exploited effectively to gain competitive edge. Many scholars are convinced that a strategy may be referred as a structure upon which an organization can assert its fundamental congruity while figuring out to settle in to the changing condition to accomplish upper hand on rivals. Whereas, strategy implementation is the practice of putting policies and strategies into actions while developing programs, budgets and procedures. Formulating strategy is a complex task but now-a-days implementation is considered even more intricate process. According to various researchers, leadership often has a vital influence on overall performance of an organization. Researchers have exposed several problems in strategy execution connected to leadership roles. Without an effective leadership, escalating conflict of priorities will be consequence of reduced harmonization since staff may perceive the avoidance towards disconcerting and intimating circumstances by top management, in a result organization may go through impediments in strategy implementation. Therefore, in this paper the impact of strategic leadership on strategy implementation is discovered through previous literature review. In which, it is found that organizations seem to have difficulty in executing their strategies and leadership is claimed as one of the most significant barriers. Furthermore, leadership is found as an important driver in successful strategy execution. Therefore, role of leadership should be undertaken meticulously while articulating and implementing the strategic decisions.