Strategic Awareness: ‘The’ Critical Leadership Competency

I’m often asked, “How do you teach people to think strategically?” and “How do you actually select strategic objectives?" The short answer to these questions is strategic awareness, which is the fusion of strategic thinking (unbound, creative, fearless, and outside the box when needed) and personal and environmental awareness (knowledge of self, knowledge of your organization’s internal operations and dynamics, and understanding of the external market landscape).

Strategic awareness is;an essential leadership competency for an organization’s success and sustainability. For a further exploration into this concept of strategic awareness, I turned to the work of . . .