To become a better strategic thinker able to formulate and implement plans that will achieve the desired objective, take the following guidelines to heart:
- Break down the issue
- Ask why before how
- Identify the real issues and objections
- Review your Resources
- Develop your plan
- Put the right people in the right place
- Keep repeating the process
Strategic thinking is like Showering, you have to keep doing it. If you except to solve any major problem once your in for a disappointment. Little things can be won easily through systems and personal discipline. But major issues need major strategic thinking time.
If you want to become a effective strategic thinker, then you need to become a continuous strategic thinker.
The Will to win is worthless if you don’t have the will to prepare.