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What is Flaneur

Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
Traditionally the traits that mark the flâneur are wealth, education, and idleness. He strolls to pass the time that his wealth affords him, treating the people who pass and the objects he sees for his own pleasure. An anonymous face in the multitude, the flâneur is free to probe his surroundings for clues and hints that may go unnoticed by the others.
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A Strategy: A 21st Century Strategic Leader Profile
Linda Ellington (Southern New Hampshire University, USA)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch090
Abstract
A starting point in exploring the strategic leader is to examine a 21C leader who will lead organizations through complex, global, competitive and undefined organizations. It may be time in the world's clock to reset the profile of strategic leaders; and if so, what does that look like and why do we care? This chapter is not only a view into the leader's development but the development of their organization across a variety of contexts. The strategic leader's competency to grow determines the organizational capacity to success. And yet, in the leader's quest for growth and success there may be a need to provoke a deeper understanding of their role in the process. The emerging challenges of chaos, complexity and ambiguity may affect the way leaders practice their craft; thus, the exploration into uncovering the need for the change of strategic leading itself.
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