A Leaders’s Influence on the Definition and Implementation of Strategy in Organizations

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Slađana Vujičić
Mirjana Radović Marković
Dragan Ivković
Zorana Nikitović

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In modern business conditions, the success of an organization is connected to the leader skills and abilities. Leadership becomes more important every day due to the requests of a turbulent and variable environment which can be satisfied only by organizations led by leaders able to harmonize the leading of the organization with the real situation within it. Thus leaders, through their behavior and skills influence, define and implement organization strategy to a large extent.

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Part III: Globalization and Business Management

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