Three main skills of a strategic leader: Malatya small and medium enterprises (SME) application

Abstract

The decisions of top leaders are highly important because they bear a determinative junction for the survivalists of an enterprise. Top leaders who are planning strategies while maintaining those functions; taking all the precautions for making those strategies apply and managing all the controls before applying them are the "Strategic Leaders". For the strategic leaders to be effective, they need to have three main skills. These are strategic thinking, strategic behavior and strategic influence. Starting from this fact; the aim of this study is "to scrutinize the strategic leadership abilities of top leaders of SME's which has stable capacity reports and registered to Malatya Chamber of industry and Commerce, in terms of the perception of subordinates. "At the end of the research, we have seen that the strategic leadership skills of top leaders with respect to perfection are; strategic thinking, strategic behavior and strategic influence.