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Observe, interact and draw connections
Create mental space for new ideas to kick in. Without the quiet time to sit with your thoughts, facing the uncomfortable silence, and letting your mind wander away, you cannot draw useful connections.
Spend time learning about your business and industry. Meet with other functions within your organization to understand how they operate, what their challenges are and how they make decisions. All of this knowledge will enable you to apply different mental models to connect ideas from different domains thereby expanding your circle of competence and building your strategic thinking skills.
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Getting started on the strategic thinking mindset
Strategic thinking: the ability to visualize the long-term while planning the short-term to align with the long-term is a critical skill in life.
Much like other things in life, strategic thinking is a muscle that gets better with repetition and practice.
Here are a f...
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Challenge and question assumptions
One big component of building a strategic thinking mindset is to challenge how certain things are done in your organization - not with the intent to put someone down or establish your superiority, but to identify ways to do them better.
- Ask targeted questions on sp...
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Strategic thinking is an ongoing process
You can’t build a strategic thinking muscle unless you audit your outcomes, inquire about other opinions and adapt to the changes around you.
The world is changing very fast and you need to adapt your thinking to the demands of the tomorrow and not the expectations from th...
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Put it into action
While a good strategy is important to get started, a strategy by itself won’t get you anywhere. You need both strategies “the intent” and tactics “putting that intent to action.”
- Break down your strategy into the specific things you need to do.
- Pla...
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Craft and communicate
To embrace a strategic thinking mindset, don’t work in silos. Find people around you that you can trust, respect or admire.
Exchange your ideas with them, request them to challenge your thinking, enable them to ask you tough and uncomfortable questions.
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