Most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than planning their lives. -Unknown
How Strategic Thinking Can Make You More Successful
Strategic thinking helps a person to plan, become more efficient, maximize strengths, and find the most direct path toward achieving any objective.
- Strategic thinking simplifies the difficult
- Strategic thinking prompts you to ask the right questions
- Strategic thinking prompts customization
- Strategic thinking prepares you today for an uncertain tomorrow
- Strategic thinking reduces the margin of error
- Strategic thinking gives you influence with others
How to Become a Strategic Thinker
- Break down the issue
- Ask why before how
- Identify the real issues and objectives
- Review your resources
- Develop your plan
- Put the right people in the right place
- Keep repeating the process
Strategic Thinking Action Plan
- Strategize yourself first
- Always ask why
- Balance intuition and strategy
- Find a strategic mentor
* Source: How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell