🧠 Imagine... Thinking Strategically Like a Leader 🧠
💡 Imagined Endstate:
You have developed your strategic thinking skills and can apply them to any situation or challenge.
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📚 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:
- - Ask yourself what-if questions.
- - Reframe problems from different perspectives.
- - Seek out diverse sources of information and feedback.
- - Test your assumptions and hypotheses.
- - Learn from failures and successes. 🌱
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