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The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
Michael D. Watkins
Leading Your Organization Into the Future
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What's it about?
The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking (2024) is a comprehensive guide designed to enhance your leadership skills by focusing on strategic thinking.
It identifies six key components of strategic thought: mental agility, pattern recognition, political savvy, problemsolving, systems analysis, and visioning, each essential for recognizing threats and opportunities, establishing priorities, and driving organizational success. Offering a blend of academic insights and practical tools, it aims to develop and nurture your strategic thinking, making it an invaluable resource.

Who's it for?
• Aspiring business leaders seeking strategic skills
• Executives facing complex organizational challenges
• Professionals interested in leadership and organizational change

6 key ideas
• Introduction
1. Mastering pattern recognition in strategic decisionmaking
2. Managing complexity with systems analysis
3. Enhancing your mental agility in strategic thinking
4. Unraveling challenges with structured problemsolving
5. Shaping futures through inclusive visioning
6. Political savvy, strategic influence, and alliances in organizations
• Final summary

About the author:
Michael D, Watkins is a professor of leadership at IMD Business School and cofounder of Genesis Advisers. He's renowned for his expertise in leadership transitions and organizational success and has been recognized for his significant contributions to management and leadership, He's the author of the international best seller The First 90 Days and has also authored numerous influential articles and books on leadership, negotiation, and business strategy.

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