Strategic thinking in leadership is a huge topic. Yet, one fun Brainzooming client asked us to distill a complete learning experience that would bolster its newly formed leadership team's strategic thinking into a half-day Idea Magnets workshop on strategic thinking in leadership.
The challenge? We could deliver THREE days of Idea Magnets-based content about strategic thinking in leadership!
As a resource for them (and for you), here is a mega-compilation post on strategic thinking in leadership.
From our perspective, strategy and strategic thinking are different.
In the Brainzooming world, strategic thinking is addressing what matters with insight and innovation. Its goal is to create a willingness to address challenging issues and to inspire people to use their imaginations as they envision many possibilities, turning the best ones into realities.
While setting strategy may be the responsibility of senior management, we FIRMLY believe and readily share an important idea: strategic thinking and leadership need to happen throughout any organization.
Here’s how we contrast these two important business functions.
Strategy involves:
Strategic Thinking & Leadership involves:
Strategic thinking in leadership incorporates seven elements:
Emerging from that definition of strategic thinking in leadership, these 43 Brainzooming articles expand how to strengthen your capabilities in this vital area:
We conclude the workshop with an important idea: ultimately, all you can control is the integrity of your effort. That, in many ways, is your one job. Everything else springs from this. – Mike Brown
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