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Learning to Think Strategically

Title: Learning to Think Strategically
Author: Julia Sloan
ISBN: 813120667X / 9788131206676
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 312
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2006
Availability: Out of Stock

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In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved - taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is an original primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition, and identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically. Learning to Think Strategically asserts that learning is the critical link to strategic thinking. Learning is a "conversion tool" that can transform thinking strategically into a sustainable competitive advantage.

* Part of the leading edge New Frontiers in Learning series
* Application of critical thinking, creativity, reflection, dialogue, testing and reaction to the process of strategic thinking.
* Incorporates activities & exercises that strengthen three levels of learning - instrumental, communicative & transfomative.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1 : How Did We get to this Points
Chapter 1 : Chronology of Strategy
Chapter 2 : Contemporary Competing Views of Strategy : Two Sides Face Off
Chapter 3 : Implications of Strategic History For Strategic Learning

Part 2 : How Do We Learn to Think Strategically?
Chapter 4 : Informal and Formal Learning Defined
Chapter 5 : Formal Learning Refuted
Chapter 6 : Context and Transfer as Factors in the Strategic Thinking Process

Part 6 : What Does Learning to Think Strategically Look Like?
Chapter 7 : Preparation Stage
Chapter 8 : Experience Stage
Chapter 9 : Reevaluation Stage
Chapter 10 : Overview of Learning Domains Used for Strategic Thinking
Chapter 11 : The surf and Dive Learning Domains

Part 5 : How Can we Talk About All This
Chapter 12 : The Role of Dialogue in the Strategic Thinking Process
Chapter 13 : The Role of Inquiry in Critical Dialogue

Part 6 : Why do we Learn Strategic Thinking this Way
Chapter 14 : Intuition as a Must-Have for Learning to Think Strategically
Chapter 15 : Framing
Chapter 16 : Shattering Frames
Chapter 17 : Reframing

Part 7 : What About the Numbers?
Chapter 18 : The Roles of Analysis and Intuition in Strategic Decision Making
Chapter 19 : Decision-Making Approaches to Strategic Thinking
Chapter 20 : Coordinating Intuition and Analysis to Facilitate Strategic Thinking

Part 8 : What Does Culture Have to do With Strategic Thining?
Chapter 21 : The Role of Culture in Strategic Thinking
Chapter 22 : The Challenge of Introducing Strategic Thinking Across Cultures

Part 9 : Is Anybody Born With This Know-How?
Chapter 23 : The Five Critical Attributes
Chapter 24 : Interplay of the Five Attributes
Chapter 25 : Adaptation as a Strategic Expectation

Part 10 : What Can We Do To Improve Strategic Thinking?
Chapter 26 : Developing the Five Essential Attributes
Chapter 27 : Developing Critical Reflective Processes
Chapter 28 : Suggestions for Learning to Think Strategically

Notes
Bibliography
Index

 

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