Introduction Survival of today’s business environment requires strategic leadership. Therefore, in order to gain some competitiveness in the environment it is important that each business organization must have its unique form of strategic leadership. For that matter, strategic leadership refers to the potential of the manager to utilize good strategic plans in the employees’ management so as to influence them to achieve organizational change. Besides, the main objective of strategic leadership is to attain strategic productivity. Moreover, in order to have strategic leadership that is functional, it is relatively important to promote inventiveness and creativity in the organization in order to realize its goals and objectives. In relation to today’s business environment, it is imperative to acknowledge that it is characterized by stiff competition. Consequently, it is therefore important for business organizations to have proactive and reactive strategic plans that seek to combat the competition. Nevertheless, it is important that for these strategic plans to be implemented properly there is need to have strategic leadership in the organization in order to provide the much needed leadership. Strategic leadership is relevant in terms of providing vision and to ensure that business’ objectives and mission is attained. Therefore, this paper discusses approaches to strategic leadership as a way of surviving in today’s business environment Survival in today’s business environment requires strategic leadership Survival of business in the current times requires strategic leadership. However, in order to have strategic leadership, there is need to craft effective and efficient strategic plans to drive businesses in a stiff competitive environment. For that matter, it is necessary to adopt an appropriate approach to strategic leadership to assure this survival (Watson & Wooldridge, 2005). Trends in strategic planning that are currently being witnessed can inform several possible scenarios for the future. As earlier discussed, competition in the operating environment demands approaches to planning that will be able to craft and design strategies for organizations that are capable of making them bullet proof in terms of impending competition in the environment. Therefore, for businesses to continuously maintain their operating space and market in the environment, it is relatively important to come up with scenarios that can be used in crafting and designing strategic plans for the organizations in order to give them a competitive edge in the environment (Mintzberg & Lampel, 1999). However, these scenarios need to be proactive and reactive in order to make the organization maintain its vivaciousness. For that matter, it is relatively important to carry out trend analysis in order to predict what is likely to happen in the future. Therefore, it is important to have knowledge of what is happening currently in the environment by considering trends in the sector, country and the entire globe. As a result, scanning of the environment using several tools becomes compulsory in the effort of getting to understand the trend. For instance, PESTE (Political, Economic, Social, Technol