Question 1
What is strategic thinking?
Click the button next to the correct answer choice. After you have read the feedback, explore the other choices. Note: Your first selection will be used to tally your score.
Analyzing opportunities and problems from a broad perspective and understanding your actions' potential impact on others
Correct choice. Because you work in a particular part of your organization, you have only so much information at hand to address difficult problems and make important decisions. Strategic thinking helps you overcome these limitations, enabling you to view workplace challenges from a broad perspective and anticipate your decisions' possible impact on other individuals and parts of your organization. As a result, you make smarter choices and select the most appropriate courses of action to generate valuable results for your organization.
Developing plans for persuading your supervisor, peer managers, employees, or customers to adopt your proposed course of action
Not the best choice. Strategic thinking isn't about persuasion. Rather, it's a way to overcome inherent limitations in the workplace. Because you work in a particular part of your organization, you have only so much information at hand to address difficult problems and make important decisions. Strategic thinking helps you overcome these limitations, enabling you to view workplace challenges from a broad perspective and anticipate your decisions' possible impact on other individuals and parts of your organization. As a result, you make smarter choices and select the most appropriate courses of action to generate valuable results for your organization.
Identifying the root causes of problems without allowing emotions to dominate or confuse your thinking process
Not the best choice. Strategic thinking isn't only about root-cause analysis or cool-headed rationalization. Rather, it's a way to overcome inherent limitations in the workplace. Because you work in a particular part of your organization, you have only so much information at hand to address difficult problems and make important decisions. Strategic thinking enables you to view workplace challenges from a broad perspective and anticipate your decisions' possible impact on other individuals and parts of your organization. As a result, you make smarter choices and select the most appropriate courses of action to generate valuable results for your organization.