Leadership Lessons from Strategic
Thinking Part-1
Henry Mintzberg is a Management professor and
Author on various books related to management From Canada. In his work on
Strategic thinking he has developed seven dimensions of strategic thinking as
ways of developing Strategies for an organisation, in this Leadership series, I
have adopted his work for Leadership development.
Let us understand Leadership development
through seven dimensions of Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking-1-Seeing Ahead- The term Seeing Ahead
means Foreseeing an expected future by constructing a framework out of the
events of the past. Good Leaders will see, and act based on the future. In
simple words they look forward, but they consider the Past, because they
believe that they can’t see ahead unless they see behind, because any good
vision of the future has to be rooted in an understanding of the past.
Strategic Thinking -2-Seeing Behind
Why do Good Leaders see the Past to see the
Future?
There are two things they take from the past,
first is good Practises of the past which can be instrumental in identifying
the strengths and the same can be used as foundation for the future. Second is
Mistakes of the past which be a caution while building the future.
To experience these two types of thinking,
set a Goal which you should achieve in the next three months in your
Team/Organisation using the below:
I. Goal
statement:
II. List down
your strengths:
III. How can you
use the strengths to achieve your goal?
IV. List down
your Team’s /Organisation weaknesses:
V. Identify how
the above weakness will adversely impact your goal
VI. List down
what will you do to overcome the weakness
VII. List down the
mistakes that was committed in the past
VIII. Identify how
to above mistakes will adversely impact your goals
IX. List down how
will you ensure the above mistakes are not repeated in the future
Visit the past to develop the future
M.L. Narendra Kumar
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