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Maddallah basheer aboud Al: The Impact of Transformatıonal Leadershıp on Strategıc Agılıty an Empırıcal
Study at The Aqaba Specıal Economıc Zone Authorıty

While Idris, & AL-Rubaie (2013) emphasized evidence of the importance of
strategic agility, as they indicated that the organizations that witnessed success
realized that the continuity and long-term sustainability of this success depends on
strategic agility and the need for available opportunities; as well as relying on
strategic agility to form The basis for organizational success and sustainability is to
enhance and reshape value through penetrating new markets, adopting new business
models, and achieving innovation in comparison with competitors. These
developments have become an urgent need for organizations operating in an
environment characterized by rapid changes and intense competition in the markets
and the ability to survive depends on excellence on Competitors by strengthening
the basic capabilities and competencies, to become a leader in its field in terms of
determining customer needs and desires and innovating new ways of doing business.
These activities need companies to adopt organizational agility to be implemented.
(Al-Badrani, 2015) pointed out that it is necessary to identify the basic capabilities
of the organization and to identify allies and counterpart organizations in order to
reach solutions to the problems of its customers, and it gives the organization the
character of intelligence, flexibility and openness to new events, which puts it in a
state in which it is always ready to re-evaluate options And if the key to the success
of organizations in the rapidly changing environment is the strategic agility, which is
the ability to provide support, and sometimes sudden change to take advantage of
the opportunities available in the changing market, as the strategic agility enables the
organization to To achieve many goals accurately and quickly, such as starting to
apply flexible and smart competitive moves. The study (Al-Batayneh, 2017)
explained the importance of strategic lightness (strategic agility), as he stressed that
organizations must have the ability to react quickly and better and anticipate things,
speed and continuous improvement. In change before competitors and for this it is
necessary to follow the so-called agility. The importance of agility according to the
importance of the three strategic agility dimensions, which are strategic sensitivity,
strategic flexibility, and speed of operation. The importance of the study depends on
clarifying the impact of the strategic agility dimensions on the performance of the
Aqaba Special Economic Zone. And the importance of these dimensions to address
the performance deficiency problems facing the Aqaba Special Economic Zone,
which have an impact on performance.

The study considers that organizational agility is of great importance to
organizations if their dimensions are taken into account and those dimensions are
included in their own strategic plans, and accordingly, that importance can be
summarized in the following points:

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