🧠 IMSPARK: Thinking Strategically Like a Leader 🧠

 

🧠 Imagine... Thinking Strategically Like a Leader 🧠 

💡 Imagined Endstate:

 You have developed your strategic thinking skills and can apply them to any situation or challenge. 

🔗 Link: 

[URL Here] 

📚 Source: 

Horwath, R. (2021, November 23). How to Think Strategically Like a Leader. Harvard Business Review. 

💥 What’s the Big Deal: 

Strategic thinking is a crucial skill for leaders, but many are labeled as tactical, not strategic. This article provides a framework to help you improve your strategic thinking capabilities by focusing on three core behaviors: acumen, allocation, and action. 🚀

By mastering these behaviors, you can set direction, create advantage, and achieve executive excellence.

🌐 Strategic thinking is the ability to generate and apply unique business insights that create competitive advantage and long-term value.

Four key elements of strategic thinking are: a clear and inspiring purpose, a deep understanding of customers and competitors, a distinctive and coherent way to win, and a set of reinforcing systems and capabilities.

🖐️ Five practical tips to improve your strategic thinking are:

1. - Ask yourself what-if questions.

1. - Reframe problems from different perspectives.

1. - Seek out diverse sources of information and feedback.

1. - Test your assumptions and hypotheses.

1. - Learn from failures and successes. 🌱

#leadership, #StrategicThinking, #ProblemSolving, #Reframing,#IMSPARK,