Surprise—you don’t need a formal strategy role to help shape
your organization’s strategic direction.
You can start by moving beyond frameworks and communicating in more
engaging way. “Becoming More
Strategic: Three Tips for Any
Executive”, authored by Michael Birshan and Jayanti Kar and published in Strategy + Business, suggests any
executive “can act to become more strategic” by following three deceptively
simple tips. “in our interviews and
experience (these tips) represent foundational skills for any strategist and
putting them into practice requires real work”.
Here’s the three tips:
· Understand
what strategy really means in your industry: Because strategy is an on-going journey,
leaders will need to focus on and think strategically in their particular industry context.
· Become an
expert at identifying potential disrupters:
Expanding the group of leaders engaged in strategic dialog helps
boost the odds of identifying company or industry-disrupting changes that are
just over the horizon.
· Develop
communications that can break through:
an adaptive strategy-development process places a premium on effective
communications with all executives participating, supported by data that’s
engaging and easy to manipulate.
The authors conclude by cautioning, “It’s not enough to
increase the number and diversity of leaders engage in strategy. Many of those leaders also must enhance their
own strategic capabilities. We hope
these three tips help them get started.”
1 comment:
Just a note to point out that the article referred to article was published in McKinsey Quarterly (as indicated in the link at the end of the post) rather than Strategy+Business as quoted in the first para.
Gordon
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