ABSTRACT
To start with let us consider some examples of what we mean by the term strategy when we talk of people employing strategies in reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. It seems to me that we would not talk of strategies when people are making quick decisions with little time for conscious reflective thought. Thus we would not talk of a footballer employing a strategy when receiving and releasing the ball in a couple of seconds, but we might consider that a golfer could employ strategies in choosing the kind of shot to play. Similarly, we would not consider strategic thinking to be implicated in how a car driver reacts to a sudden emergency on the road, but might we believe that it is involved in how the manager of small company deals with a crisis in the company’s performance.
