Strategic Thinking
- 7 Courses | 2h 34m 54s
- 9 Books | 31h 45m
- 9 Audiobooks | 38h 2m 43s
How can you be more strategic as a leader? Strategic thinkers continually ask questions to help create the bridge between strategy and tactics. The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Strategic leaders have to have vision and the ability to persuade fellow employees to undertake necessary actions to acquire the same vision.
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Using Strategic Thinking as a Manager
Are you a strategic thinker? Do you consider what's going on around you - in your unit, company, industry, and wider business environment? Are you good at visualizing new possibilities or ways of working? Charting the future in today's business environment requires leaders to think strategically like never before. In these times of personal and organizational disruption and change, strategic thinking has become a skill of necessity that will play a key role in determining success or failure. In this course, you'll learn the characteristics of strategic thinking and what a strategic mindset looks like in action. You'll also learn the skills involved in developing two vital aspects of strategic thinking: the creative, innovative, and visionary components that allow you to have and communicate a clear strategic vision and see new possibilities; and the orderly, analytical, and logical skills that help you handle complexity and guide you toward balanced and smart decision making.
6 videos |
25m
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Horizon Scanning: Identifying Future Opportunities
The most successful organizations can spot signs of change and adapt to it - or even better - seize change as an opportunity. This capability to scan the horizon of the future is also known as environmental scanning. In this course, you'll learn what horizon scanning is and how it can benefit your business. You'll also learn to recognize key areas of change and understand the steps involved in horizon scanning. In addition, you'll learn how to analyze the data you collect and communicate it so the best decisions can be made.
6 videos |
27m
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Thinking Strategically as a Manager
To resolve many of the threats and challenges that your organization will likely have to face, it's essential that you develop a business strategy that incorporates a clear vision, new ideas, and innovative solutions. This course explores the characteristics of strategic thinking, as well as the traits you need to plan and implement an effective strategy. It also covers how to develop your capacity for thinking strategically through creative thinking, being prepared to deal with complexity, and being aware of what's going on inside and outside your organization.
7 videos |
22m
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PMI PDU
Using Strategic Thinking to Consider the Big Picture
Big-picture thinking stretches beyond the short term and considers how an organization can succeed in the long term. By thinking strategically about a problem using the bigger picture, you can elevate your perspective and get a better idea of the forces at play within your organization. This course describes how systems thinking can help you become skillful at making sense out of opposites and contradictions and better understand cause and effect while managing your department according to the business strategy. It explains actions you can take to encourage creative thinking and come up with solutions that take into account the bigger picture. You'll also learn how understanding your organizational value chain can help you connect to the organization's strategy and implement it more effectively.
7 videos |
22m
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PMI PDU
Identifying Risks in Your Organization
Risk is an inevitable aspect of any business. As a manager, it's important that you mitigate or avoid the potential impact of a risk if it comes to pass, to ensure the long-term survival of your organization. This course focuses on the first step in managing risk, identifying risks to your organization. You'll explore the difference between internal and external risks, and how some risks may actually present a strategic opportunity. You'll also learn how to use some techniques that can help you identify risks and calculate the probability that they will occur, including root cause identification, the Delphi technique, and brainstorming sessions.
7 videos |
18m
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PMI PDU
Assessing Your Organization's Risks
Risk is a fact of life for businesses and one that will never just go away. But before you can start managing risk, you need to be able to assess a risk - as well as its probability - in order to create a strategic plan that will enable you to avoid or mitigate its potential negative impact. In this course, you'll learn some common techniques for assessing risk, including opportunity assessment, and threat assessment using FMEA - failure mode and effects analysis.
7 videos |
20m
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PMI PDU
Responding Effectively to Risks
The third step to take when managing risk, once you've identified and assessed risks to your organization, is to deal with them appropriately. Some risks may have a higher probability of becoming a reality than others, while others may have more of a negative impact. You'll need to treat each of these types of risks differently. This course covers how to create an effective strategy for responding to risk, such as risk exposure adjustment and contingency planning. It also outlines specific strategic plans for dealing with a risk that may be a threat or an opportunity.
7 videos |
18m
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingThink to Win teaches you how to leverage the power of strategic thinking to your advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By John F. Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
BOOK SUMMARY
Now, Build a Great Business! 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any MarketUsing proven examples from successful businesses, Now, Build a Great Business! explores seven powerful principles that offer clear and practical ways to grow your business, even in difficult economic times. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m
By Brian Tracy, Mark Thompson
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Uncommon Leadership: How to Build Competitive Advantage by Thinking DifferentlyIn order to energize managers and leaders, they need to feel challenged, stretched and inspired. This thorough resource captures ideas specifically designed to motivate executives to develop their own distinctive approach to thinking differently about business.
4h 18m
By Anthony Sturgess, Phil Higson
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Demystifying Strategic Thinking: Lessons from Leading CEOsUsing unique and original interviews with six top business leaders, this book examines the key components of successful strategizing, provides a strategy system for managers and helps them develop and implement a winning strategy for their organization.
5h 54m
By Tony Grundy
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Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic ThinkingProviding leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities, this book will enable leaders to finally integrate both strategy and innovation into a strategic approach that drives their profitable growth.
2h 41m
By Rich Horwath
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Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the EnemyDrawing on little-known case studies and unprecedented access to elite red teamers in the United States and abroad, this book will revolutionize the way organizations think about, exploit, compensate for, and correct their institutional strengths and weaknesses.
6h 34m
By Micah Zenko
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The 8 Steps to Strategic Success: Unleashing the Power of EngagementPresenting a process for creating a strategy that really delivers, this book describes the key parts of the process for each step, explains how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and points to the most useful strategic models and frameworks.
4h 20m
By Gerben van den Berg, Paul Pietersma
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd editionIncluding prompt sheets, objectives, action plans and summaries, this book will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of your market, forecast where your organization is heading, think critically about proposals and write an effective strategic plan.
2h 51m
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get ResultsBringing together insights from cognitive psychology, systems theory, and other fields to show that the importance of strategic thought transcends planning, this book will inspire you to have a greater impact, today and into the future.
4h 48m
By Aaron K. Olson, B. Keith Simerson
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Learning to Think StrategicallyLearning to Think Strategically provides a theoretical framework that links a continuous cycle of learning to strategic thinking and performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 44s
By Julia Sloan
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingThink to Win teaches you how to leverage the power of strategic thinking to your advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 28s
By John F. Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic ThinkingElevate provides practical tools for forward-thinking CEOs, leaders, and managers to lift their skills in strategy to a higher level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 49s
By Rich Horwath
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd EditionStrategic Thinking offers a nine-step approach for becoming a strategic thinker and, consequently, a strong, strategic leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
22m 33s
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
Audiobook
Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to CustomersThis audio edition demonstrates how companies are reorienting their strategies around customer interactions to create and capture unique value.
6h 1m 3s
By Niraj Dawar
Audiobook
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the EnemyThis audio edition will revolutionize the way organizations think about, exploit, compensate for, and correct their institutional strengths and weaknesses.
11h 2m 24s
By Micah Zenko
Audiobook
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic SituationsThis audio edition will empower you with wisdom - not just to win in every strategic situation (or "game") you face but to change those games and the ecosystems in which they reside to transform your life and our lives together for the better.
6h 59m 42s
By David McAdams
Audiobook
Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic ThinkingIn this audio edition, author Rich Horwath provides leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities.
6h 9m 3s
By Rich Horwath
Audiobook
Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingThis audio edition offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges and provides a common language anyone at any level in the organization can understand.
6h 33m 57s
By John F. Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinkers continually ask questions to help create the bridge between strategy and tactics. The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Strategic thinking and strategic orientation are essential for planning - and strategic leaders must always be thinking strategically, and must have vision and the ability to persuade fellow employees to undertake necessary actions to acquire the same vision. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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