'Thinking Strategically Will Help You Get Ahead and Stay Ahead' strategicthinking criticalthinking
Interestingly, a lot of us hear about it for the first time in our lives through our managers “You are great at execution, but you need to start thinking strategically.”wasn’t a popular concept in the early years of my career.
Call me naive, but that was the corporate world I lived in back then. Much has changed since, but one thing has remained constant: Strategic thinking is as important now as it was many years ago. Contrary to what we’re led to believe, thinking better isn’t about being a genius. It is about the processes we use to uncover reality and the choices we make once we do - Shane Parish
One of the biggest problems I see in organizations is how people do certain things because they have always been done that way. Emailing a report every morning to hundreds of employees that no one cares to open. Spending hours and hours of meeting time in planning discussions when no one cares about those plans a few months down the line. Far too many inefficiencies creep into the corporate system over a long period of time.
Building a strategic thinking mindset requires delaying that gratification. It requires living with a small, unimportant problem and putting all your energy and focus on other important ideas and activities that require long-term planning and execution. Strategic thinking not only involves the long-term view into the future, it also involves the choices you need to make to make that future possible. It requires determining which path to take and which to abandon. It requires evaluating the cost and making the trade-offs. Doing something will always come at the cost of not doing something else.
Examine your strategy from time to time and audit it to ensure you are still leaning against the right wall.Does an area seem more promising than you originally envisioned?What kind of changes can you foresee based on market shifts or other industry trends?in your thinking by relying only on confirming pieces of evidence while rejecting data that contradicts it.Is it a specific tactic that’s causing your strategy to not work.
Don’t stay with your opinion unless you have solid data and people to back up your thinking. Ask others these questions:What would you do if you were in my place?What circumstances or events would cause you to evaluate other options?Finally, use the inputs from your audit and inquiry to adjust your strategy. Adapt your future strategy based on the learning from your past.
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