ABSTRACT

Leadership strategy describes the organizational and human capabilities needed to enact the organizational strategy effectively. Double-loop learning is beneficial to this process. Organizational design should be engineered to learn from mistakes without risking the business. Organizational design may effectively displace the belief that centralized control is necessary through 'the unique ways in which each organization motivates its people to achieve clearly articulated strategic objectives'. 'Effective organizational design is a never-ending process'. One of the challenges in applying organizational theory is differentiating it from leadership theory. With strengths identified, leaders may use organizational design in complement to leadership strengths. Thus, organizational design is an enabling tool for deriving competitively differentiable synergies among and across followers. The ecosystem influences contextual and dimensional leadership choices for organizational design. Integration is also an organizational design challenge. In addition to the cultural alchemy, the organizational design resulting from the integration should be a better structure than either company before the integration.