The rationalised plan for effective leadership and management for Starbucks Corporation is best presented through McKinsey 7S’ Framework. It has to be noted that “the essence of McKinsey’s 7S model is that a firm is the comprehensive sum of its parts, and that the internal dynamics of an organisation clearly determine that organisation’s ability to compete, the premise being that both the strategy and the structure of the organisation determine management’s effectiveness” (Joseph and Mohapatra, 2009, p.59).
The 7S’es of the framework are divided into hard and soft elements. Strategy, structure and systems are considered to be hard elements of the framework, whereas, soft elements consist of shared values, skills, style and staff. Starbucks management have direct influence and control over the hard elements of the framework, whereas the soft elements are usually influenced by corporate culture, and therefore they are more difficult to control.