Find out how a manager or leader can use Strategic agility that requires strategic thinking to balance between adjusting to change and holding a winning vision at the same time.

1. Manager as
Strategist
How to Harness
the
Power of
Strategic Agility

2. It’s time…
Throw out
traditional
strategic planning

3. Embrace a new method of
developing strategic agility

4. Strategic agility requires strategic thinking
to balance between adjusting to change and holding
a winning vision at the same time

5. strategic planning
assumption of world
is stable, predictable
sequential, and
orderly
PAST
NOW
Fast phased change requires the
development of new skills and
ways of thinking…
Strategic agility is the ability to
respond quickly to winning
vision

6. Strategic planning
sets a firm course
and stick to it with
minimal deviation
from the plan
Strategic thinking
keeps focused on the
target (big picture)
while maintains open
and flexible thinking
to accept changing on
matters to get there
(the details)

7. Strategic thinking engages synthesizing and analyzing. with creative
intuition to ask inquisitive questions to form integrated alternative views
ranging from big data sources to establishing a vision to guide direction
of companies

8. New Strategic Agility Leads You Forward
Old strategic planning leaves you behind

9. How to manage and harness
Agile Strategy

10. Visualize a clear winning target
and communicate to everyone
consistently and constantly

11. In absence of complete data, ask the right questions for
different angles to answers of an issue

12. Always strive to balance the big picture
with details to diverge strategic thinking
from strategic planning.

13. Explore new channels of
strategic thinking to
broaden horizons and
expanding data gathering
efforts beyond traditional
sources.

14. Teach strategic thinking skills to be
practised daily at work in order to build a
creative culture responding faster with agile
problem solving abilities

15. Stage field of a winning vision through a
daily focus on your vision of winning

16. Stimulate Strategic Agility by engaging on
• What’s happening outside your
business and your industry?
• Other places for you to learn?
• What are new ways to communicate
and connect with key stakeholders?
•How right things in front can be
directing attention, energy, and
thoughts on winning?
•How to places right things in front of
others?
•How to stay focus and clear on
winning if major challenges and
obstacles arise?

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