PhD in Strategic Thinking

What you'll learn

strategic thinking , planning and implementation skills

Requirements

English language

Description

A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy. strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the action. A strategy describes how the ends (goals) will be achieved by the means{ resources). The senior leadership of an organization is generally tasked with determining strategy.

In an even playing field where both parties (whether they be businesses or otherwise) have 10 units of resources, a good strategist will be able to amplify the impact of those units many times more than the competitor can.

Strategists in many ways are professional in exploiting opportunities, then. They find the best opportunity , create a plan to take advantage of it and plan/direct resources to make the biggest impact possible.

Look beyond what you can see, think about the possibilities.

How far and wide is your mental picture of possibilities?

Are they limited?

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Developing unshakable self confidence in your resolve will aid and open up such possibilities for you as you cannot imagine.

Make up a dream list. Imagine you no limitations of time, money, contacts, experience or education. Imagine that anything you put down is possible for you.

Consciously choose the future over the past.

You win by thinking about winning all the time and refusing to consider the possibility of losing. By deciding to persist, no matter what the odds, no matter what happens till you succeed. Everything you are, and everything you become is under your control and foresight ability.

Dorothea Brande said, The high road to success is to act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

The plan is a guide to keeping you on track, efficient and safe.

Can you stay on track without a plan?

At the end of the day, everything you set out to achieve, hinges on the effectiveness of your plans and what you set out to gain.

When you plan your work and adhere to the plans, and dedicate good time to completing high value tasks, you start to make foreseeable progress towards the attainment of your goals and your sense of direction and efficiency, sky rocket.

Having a plan keeps you performance oriented with set of goals in sight.

Setting goals, gets you organized and leads you step by step, towards your ideals.

Planning also beckons on your ability to think. Your mind is the most powerful tool that you have to understand reality. If you change the streamline of your thinking, it completely rubs off on your planning method and it changes the quality of your life. It involves looking down the road in months, and making a list of things necessities, goals and everything that could go wrong.

Strategy is the ability to see variables and create them when there is nothing. It's not about knowing the rules.

How creative can you be in the face of uncertainty and less to bank on?

Frederick Robertson said, "It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."

Your ability to do what you can with what you have, where you are. Being a critical thinker, advance planner and solution oriented. What has happened, is inconsequential to what can be done.

When everybody's thoughts are streamlined into the most obvious choices and less suitable ones, a strategist sees multiple routes and alternatives without much at his or her disposal.

A man cast away, and shipwrecked in an empty island, with no means of feeding, transportation, shelter and communication could be instantly written off by majority of people.

A strategist sees food in livestock and aquatic creatures, shelter in the caves or various species of leaves, communication with aircrafts in the sands with large and bold written letters and even transport in piece of wreckage and Island woods.

This is just an illustration of countless of layers to this aspect of strategic thinking.

Who this course is for:

anyone who is interested in strategic thinking