Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on leadership and strategy, corporate governance, operational excellence, and corporate social responsibility. In doing so, it offers both conceptual perspectives and case studies on these topics that are targeted at business executives who want to develop and mature towards being successful value creators in their leadership roles.
Authored by the former CEO of National Australia Bank (NAB), Don Argus, and business school professor Danny Samson, the book provides insights on the strategic leadership factors that make a significant and positive difference when they are executed effectively and, in contrast, what happens when ineffective leadership/ strategy are deployed. It proposes and illustrates core leadership axioms, and also delves into sustainable development as an element of strategy. The authors do this by developing and illustrating core concepts that relate to the two major case study companies of NAB and BHP.
Readers will be particularly interested in the core elements of leadership and strategy, and the grounded reality of how they operated in the case studies. The authors bring insiders’ and leaders’ perspectives to these topics, including tables that document shareholder value creation, and the logic behind strategic decisions, as well as key organisational leadership and strategic decision processes.
Table of ContentsPart I Key Elements of Strategic Leadership
1 Leadership
2 Organisational (Business) Strategy
3 Organisational Governance
4 Corporate Social Responsibility
5 Leaders of the Future
Part II Introduction to the Case Studies
6 NAB (A): Banking and Financial Services, 1960–2020
7 NAB (B): NAB’s Acquisition Strategy
8 NAB (C): Banking in Australia, NAB’s Track Recordand Trajectory9 BHP (A): ‘The Big Australian’ Overview and StrategicRoots10 BHP (B): Steel
11 BHP (C): Minerals
12 BHP (D): Petroleum
13 BHP(E): Rejuvenation and Renovation Towardsa New Century14 BHP(F): Mergers and Acquisitions
15 BHP(G): Global Strategy and the Foreign InvestmentReview Board (FIRB)16 BHP(H): Industrial Relations
17 BHP(I): Environment
18 Attachment 1: BHP DLC
19 Brambles: Dual Listed Company Structures
