How to Think Strategically: Upskilling for Impact and Powerful Strategy

The Most-Important Tool of Strategy Is Found Between Your Ears!

A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic.

How to Think Strategically upskills you to

Internalize the 20 micro skills of strategic thinking.

Distinguish strategic thinking from operational thinking and appropriately apply each.

Pose high-quality questions that spark strategic insights.

Write a concise one-page statement of strategy, with five essential concepts that will help you distinguish effective strategy from a list of goals.

Improve conversations with stakeholders.

Develop a courageous personal leadership style and a courageous perspective to address the real issues that are obstacles to your organization’s success.

Overcome the excuse of “I'm too busy to be strategic".

Anyone can improve their strategic thinking if they know where to focus their attention.