Learn more about strategy with this collection
How to build trust and respect with team members
How to communicate effectively
How to motivate and inspire others
It’s a way to solve problems. It’s not about how high your IQ is, or how many business theories you know. It’s just about the way you think about problems.
The hallmark of a successful executive, entrepreneur or freelancer is the ability to be more strategic than one’s peers or competitors.
1.96K
13.4K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Analyzing data is really good at making sense of the past, and not so great at making sense of the future.
Because most forecasts will prove to be false. The majority of future data is as unreliable as your average long-range weather forecast.
1.87K
5.54K reads
It's the approach most of us use when we don’t actually realize that we are solving a problem.
We just execute a solution we already know – or we ask another expert to do so for us.
This is the methodical execution of already known tasks, towards completion of an alr...
1.86K
10.7K reads
This is the path that problem-solving activities follow when undertaken by people who believe that you need the facts first before you can envisage any answer. No data, no solution.
The big benefit of the Submarine route as a problem-solving approach is that you turn lots ...
1.93K
9.29K reads
You and your team will typically need to think strategically about a particular issue you face if:
1.94K
7.1K reads
It is the ultimate mental model for working smarter, not harder. It contains three distinct sections:
2.28K
16.5K reads
You may not need real data to have real ideas, but you do need real data to have real solutions. Because until it has been tested against the harsh light of reality, your idea is not yet a solution.
1.88K
6.11K reads
It is the approach you take when you can’t really work out the answer right from the beginning and you’re clear that data is going to be sparse and unreliable.
You accept that you’re faced with a bunch of unknowns and that it’s all very chaotic. So you don’t waste ...
1.91K
7.17K reads
There is simply too much unstructured and unreliable data in the future.
Demographic evolution, societal changes, AI, robots, new specialist legislation, etc. Too many changes on the horizon. There is always a new trend around the corner that you won’t have thought of. ...
1.95K
6.01K reads
1.99K
5.03K reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It`s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Related collections
Other curated ideas on this topic:
Defined as the process that determines the manner in which people think about, assess, view, and create the future for themselves and others. It’s a combination of mindset and techniques that determines one’s ability to know their goal and how to achieve it.
Strategic thinkers are...
Genius is not about having an extraordinarily high IQ, or even about being smart. It is not about finishing Mensa exercises in record time or mastering fourteen languages at the age of seven.
Geniuses think productively, not reproductively. They ask "How many different ...
Lateral thinking can bear huge dividends in certain parts of a business.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates