Overview

Learning to Think Strategically is structured around three key questions: (1) How do successful executives learn to think strategically? (Is it something they are taught? Where? By whom? How?) (2) What learning approaches are used by successful executive strategists? (3) What is most essential to their learning to think strategically?

One of the most frequent and impassioned requests I hear from executive leadership, regardless of nationality, industry, or size, is How can I develop my people to think strategically? As we discuss their observations, wants, and needs, these executives deftly identify their need as being able, repeatedly and rapidly, to shift course and to have more strategic thinkers in the pipeline. Their want, however, is to have a quick and easy, step-by-step model so that they can sit down and produce a fool-proof strategic plan, once and for all.

Learning to Think Strategically is intended for organizational leaders and professionals who are serious about increasing their capacity to think strategically in order to create, re-create, and sustain strategic effectiveness. It is also aimed at those who are committed to and tasked with developing and sustaining the pipeline of strategic thinkers in their organizations:

Executives

Chief learning officers
Chief knowledge officers
HRD and OD department managers and staff Senior line manager partners Internal and external consultants Professors and Students

Furthermore, it is intended for anyone else who is interested in leveraging learning to enhance strategic performance.

Paramount among the challenges facing the leadership of all organizations is how to...