?? Executive Tenure and Strategic Leadership

A CEO’s strategic leadership behavior is affected by time in office. Hambrick and Fukutomi (1991) presented a life cycle model to explain the pattern of changing behavior observed in many CEOs over a period of several years.?

The changing pattern of behavior have important implications for the effectiveness of a CEO, and the model helps to explain what a major reorientation is seldom initiated by a CEO who has been in office in many years.

?? Behavior in the initial stage is greatly influenced by the implicit mandate given by the board of directors or the owner of the firm.

?? After trying to satisfy the initial mandate and get a political foothold, the executive is likely to experiment with various approaches.?

?? Once a theme or strategy is selected, commitment to it tends to increase over time. The CEO becomes increasingly narrow-minded and inflexible about considering other alternatives. The task becomes less exciting, and behavior of the executive becomes more habitual and routine.

Various aspects of the environment, organisation, and individual interaction will affect above process.

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