From the course: Strategic Thinking
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Strategic thinking with your team
From the course: Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking with your team
- Strategic thinking by yourself is nice, but oftentimes your goals can't be accomplished alone. You need buy-in and support from your boss, your colleagues, and your employees. Here are three key ways to cultivate that. First, if you're developing a strategy, do not unveil it at the strategy meeting. That might sound counterintuitive, but the savviest professionals understand that meetings in which strategies are presented are actually ratification meetings. The real work takes place beforehand, systematically briefing key people to get their input and feedback and addressing any concerns they might have upfront. You absolutely do not want to share your lovingly crafted strategy for the first time and have it torpedoed because your boss has a knee jerk reaction against it or some key player misinterprets an aspect of it and goes ballistic. Or because someone springs a question on you that you hadn't thought through.…
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