ISLAMABAD: Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on Friday emphasised that a strategic leader not only had a strategic direction but also exerted a strategic thrust.
“Such dynamic leadership will accrue only when the leader is well conversant with strengths and limitations of his team and is aware of contemporary thinking and challenges,” he commented while addressing the top leadership of the strategic organisations and the participants of Senior Officers Leadership Course at its closing ceremony.
The course was organised at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences here. Strategic Plans Division Director General Lieutenant General Sarfraz Sattar also present on the occasion. The JCSC chairman emphasised on the importance of value addition in defining organisational goals.
“A good leader will not only put forward a clear mission in front of his team but will also continue to add value to it, based on team’s experience and cross breeding of ideas,” he said and appreciated the initiative of grooming the senior leadership of strategic organisations. He dwelled at length on the spectrum of strategic leadership traits.
The course was aimed at exposing the senior leadership of the strategic organisations to various leadership’s traits, providing them insight into current geo-political paradigm, promoting appreciation of contemporary security challenges and involving them in brainstorming exercises designed to help their leadership skills.
General Zubair Mahmood desired continuity and enhancement in this leadership development programme to effectively counter the modern day challenges while ensuring optimal use of resources.
