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The Top Ten Everyday Tools for Strategic Thinking: Handbook #2

The Top Ten Everyday Tools for Strategic Thinking: Handbook #2

Haines, Stephen G.

Paperback

Series: Practical Tools for Sustainable Business Sucess

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ISBN13: 9798198841833
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The Top 10 Everyday Tools for Strategic Thinking continues the learning begun in the Top 10 Everyday Tools for Daily Problem Solving Strategic Handbook #1, offering additional orientation to the Systems Thinking Approach(R). As the second Strategic Thinking Employee Handbook in this two-part series, author Stephen Haines, further defines what Systems Thinking is, why it matters, and how it will not only change the way we look at life but the way we work, as well provide the reader with 10 more simple and practical tools. Systems Thinking is ... finding patterns and relationships and learning to reinforce or change these patterns to fulfill one's goals. Haines concept of the helicopter view is based on such and suggests viewing every organization, team, family and individual from 5,000 feet above earth, as a whole living system. Then, working backwards to define the ideal path in order to obtain the desired outcome or goal of that particular system. In other words, we focus on the outcome first and then we examine the interconnected parts that will work together to achieve the goal. Hence why the term backwards thinking came to be. As Haines states in the book, the way we think creates the results we get... to impact the quality of our results is to improve the way we think. How you think is how you act. How you act is how you are. By thinking strategically and deciding our outcomes first, or looking at the whole picture, we can then work on the parts or steps that will make the system work. We can be better prepared for change because we would have already planned for any environmental impacts, relationships, and causes. One of the main reasons why organizations die is because executives fail to think of what is yet to come. - P. Crosby The Top 10 Everyday Tools for Strategic Thinking presents readers with 10 new simple daily tools that provide the keys to understanding the dynamics of whole systems and the inner workings of all living systems, such as families, teams, departments, projects and organizations. The tools are: # 1 Always ask the Systems question first- Know your Destination First #2 Environmental Impact- Scan Your Environment #3 Backwards Thinking = A-B-C-D-E #4 Feedback is a Gift- Regular Check-ups are Key! #5 Helicopter View (Common Goals) - Gain a Better Perspective #6 Booster Shots- Do you have Regular Booster Shots to Ensure Success? #7 Operational Flexibility- Strategic Consistency and Operational Flexibility #8 A web of Relationships- Change your Thinking from Events to Relationships #9 Root causes- How We Think...Is How We Act...Is How We Are! #10 Simplicity- The Goal (in all we do): Clarify & Simplify Clarify & Simplify The ease of use and the practical application of the worksheets provided at the end of each section, generate innovative people and employees as well as strategic managers. The Top 10 Everyday Tools for Strategic Thinking is a must have for any organization, any team, any family and every one of us who wants the Winning Formulas of Life. For more information on the full product of line of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management Limited, including articles, models and instruments, please visit www.tstapproach.com and select www.SystemsThinkingPress.com

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