How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
The most subtle aspect of “thinking strategically” lies in “knowing what needs to happen.”
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Leaders who engage in thinking strategically begin with where they want to go. Then they look backward from the future and ask, “What will it take to create that new tomorrow?” It's the looking back from tomorrow that gives thinking strategically its power, because that perspective helps you escape the limitations of today's situation.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
I wrote these questions out: What should I spend my time doing? What are the 20% of my activities that will yield 80% of the results? What can I stop doing? How can I use constraints to my advantage? What are my hypotheses about the future—and how do they inform my actions today? Over the next hour, I wrote pages of notes with answers to those ques
... See moreDorie Clark • The Long Game
what will the world look like 10 and 20 years from now, and how will my business fit in?
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
it is rarely possible—or even particularly fruitful—to look too far ahead. A plan can usually cover no more than 18 months and still be reasonably clear and specific. So the question in most cases should be, Where and how can I achieve results that will make a difference within the next year and a half ?