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There are plenty of strategic leadership approached that may not be very effective for the leader or organization, but on paper, look good. Several ineffective strategic leadership strategies, as outlined by Zhuo (2019) are setting and quoting metric goals, coming up with new ideas when core root problems are not understood, working harder to achieve goals when there is little alignment organizationally, and  writing long documents with too much jargon. Strategic leadership skills that are successful are implementing simple strategies, as these are easier to communicate and get buy in with (Zhuo, 2019). Having “peripheral vision” on all sides of the organization and anticipating market changes from weak signals in the environment. This can be achieved by creating a strong network of people from all different backgrounds and getting feedback from all aspects of an organization. A critical component of strategic leadership is taking all those weak signals and information from a strong and diverse network and interpreting all that data to make decisive and deliberate decisions and actions (Beatty, 2010) (Singh & Useem, 2016). Global organizations require strategic leaders to understand the complex nature of markets and organizations and the relationships between the two. Critical components also include the ability for a strategic leader to build commitment to the direction the organization is going in and doing so by getting input from those across the company (Beatty, 2010). Taking all this into consideration, there may be times when strategies that are overall viewed as ineffective could be useful. There are times when it is important to quote metric goals or celebrate when those metric goals have been achieved. Lastly, new innovative ideas are sometimes needed as a solution to an issue as well, so strategic leaders should not shy away from new ideas!