A common concern about emerging leaders is their lack of ability to think strategically. More experienced and senior leaders are often confronted with a highly talented team member who lacks the strategy chops to craft a great plan to address a problem, challenge, or opportunity. When tasked with creation of a strategy, inexperienced leaders often don’t know where to begin.
Strategic business and marketing planning is an absolute necessary for all businesses if they want to be successful long term. In my experience, working with strong strategic thinkers and learning from them has been invaluable. Having a mindset to be open to learning is also a must.
A fabulous piece on learning to think strategically! If you are in a non-strategic culture, you may struggle to find good models to use for instruction. Don’t despair! Bad models—such as relying on autocratic bossing to get things done—work really well too. The key is to perform a post-mortem on whatever you have at hand and learn from that.
Strategic business and marketing planning is an absolute necessary for all businesses if they want to be successful long term. In my experience, working with strong strategic thinkers and learning from them has been invaluable. Having a mindset to be open to learning is also a must.
A fabulous piece on learning to think strategically! If you are in a non-strategic culture, you may struggle to find good models to use for instruction. Don’t despair! Bad models—such as relying on autocratic bossing to get things done—work really well too. The key is to perform a post-mortem on whatever you have at hand and learn from that.