No Idea Is Worth A Thing

Strategic thinkers advance their careers by being better leaders. Not all great thinkers are great leaders, but the ones who are leadership material are likely better leaders than those who fail to think strategically.

Strategic leaders go beyond the role of having and communicating a vi...

According to conventional wisdom, people tend to be either right-brained or left-brained. Those who are right-brained are supposed to be intuitive and creative free thinkers; they are big-picture thinkers. Left-brained people tend to be more quantitative and analytical. They pay attention to d...

• Different assumptions lead to different outcomes. The real question is, where do those differences come from in the first place?
• Know who the critical stakeholders are. Know who can implement the recommendations, and even more important, who can stop them from being implemented.