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Understand Strategic Thinking

What is Strategic thinking?

Strategic thinking: a way of looking at your work with a broader focus and longer time frame than usual.

To bring the most value to your dept. and org. , and advance your career, you need to be able to think strategically.

-Take a break from your Daily activities

从日常的繁忙中脱离出来，时常问自己: 我为什么要做这个? 怎么样才能做得更好? 我的工作是否帮助实现了公司的整体战略?

-Identify trends

分析可能会影响公司如何更好服务客户的趋势

-Challenge assumptions

问问自己，所在的部门、组织、行业是如何展开工作的?

-Look for signs of emerging Opps and challenges

尽一切可能去寻找新兴的机会和挑战。高速发展的信息科技社会，机会稍纵即逝，需要有一双敏锐的眼睛，发现对自己有利的机会和可能存在的挑战。

-Use the insights u gain

做一个正确的决定来支持组织今天和将来的发展与成功--哪些是应该去做的，哪些是不应该做的。

Strategic thinking and Strategic planning

Strategic planning: design the roadmap that guide how people work through the company.

. Set priorities

. Allocate resources and

. Plan actions to achieve goals

Strategic thinking: Scan for new ways to contribute to the org. success. Apply insights when carrying out org. priorities and provide input.

战略计划和战略思考是相辅相成，缺一不可的。战略计划着重在指导大家如何做，而战略思考贯穿于整个战略计划制定、执行的过程中。它的魔力在于drive每一个员工积极思考探索，寻找更好的解决方案，同时也鼓励大家献计献策到战略计划制定的方方面面。

Characteristics of Strategic thinkers

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就我自己而言，在proactive、curious、creative、flexible 方面还可以继续学习。

Proactive: Anticipate change and Look for opps.

Curious: Be interested in what is going on throughout the dept., org., industry and larger biz environment.

Creative: consider unorthodox

Flexible: Be able to adjust and modify the approaches.

Strategic thinking as a habit

Work not only in the business, but also on it.

in 和 on 一个字母只差，却形象的展示出了做事情的姿态和高度: 是仅在自己的一亩三分地做工，还在站在更高的角度去思考探索? 且看一图道破天机

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How to make Strategic thinking as a habit?

. Recognize it as a key aspect of your job
. Free up your time by delegating
. Put it on your calendar
. Capture your ideas and questions
. Meet with a partner to get more inputs

Stay tuned.....