ABSTRACT
This updated and revitalized edition is a unique primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. The author impels students, executives and policy leaders to expand their focus beyond a strategic planning model to a more expansive and complex notion of strategy that includes strategic thinking as a response to innovation needs and perpetual change.
This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from strategic planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition and identifies five key attributes for learning to thinking strategically. Learning to Think Strategically asserts that learning is the critical link to transforming strategic thinking into a sustainable competitive advantage.
Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved — taking learning from the academic to the everyday.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I : HOW DID WE GET HERE?
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PART II : HOW DO WE LEARN TO THINK STRATEGICALLY?
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PART III : WHAT DOES LEARNING TO THINK STRATEGICALLY LOOK LIKE?
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PART IV : HOW CAN WE GET STARTED?
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PART V : HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT ALL OF THIS?
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PART VI : WHY DOES SOME OF THIS FEEL SO FAMILIAR?
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PART VII : . . . BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NUMBERS?
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PART VIII : WHAT ROLE DOES CULTURE PLAY?
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PART IX : IS ANYBODY BORN WITH THIS KNOW-HOW?
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PART X : HOW CAN WE BECOME BETTER STRATEGIC THINKERS?