The impact of leadership styles and practices on organizational challenges and failures / Issam A. Ghazzawi

Organizational challenges, mistakes, and failures are inevitable in this challenging global, yet dynamic economic environment. The success of the organization is contingent on a strategic leadership that fosters futuristic vision,
due diligence, and team work. While strategic leadership is a recipe for organizational success, its absence is a path to dysfunction and decline. In fact, organizational decline has
become an important subject to research in organizational strategy and organizational theory, this paper is another plea for further exploring the role of leadership within the context of the intra-organizational level. As organization’s priority has always been to have leadership that is
concerned with managing its strategic decisions to help enhance its performance, the inability of the leader to prompt the changes necessary to achieve such goals or sustain its growth might lead to inertia. Such inability
coupled with a phenomenon of stagnant organizations could possibly lead to decline and a perhaps failure.
The study concludes that leadership plays the most pivotal role in the organization’s life. Additionally, this article also provides a road map to guide the future research efforts of scholars and practicing mangers.