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Strategic thinkers

Why should leaders be strategic thinkers?
  • Being visionary, aligning operations to government and international aspirations such as Vision 2030.
  • Operate within clear and distinctive roles of the institution.
  • Considers other institutions as strategic partners in all businesses (public private sector partnership).
  • Many emerging trends and protocols.
  • Uncertainty in the operational environment.
  • Good governance – ethics/ integrity/ systems.
  • The service charter – customer orientation.
  • Technological change.
  • Public policy analysis, development and implementation.
  • Performance contracting.
  • The challenges of linkages and networking.
  • Multiple reporting.
  • Globalization.
  • Liberalization.
  • Sustainable competitive advantage.
  • Assuring continued success.
Question
    Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institutional leader, do you consider him/her to be a strategic thinker?

Learn more from the links below

Read about the strategic mindset
Read about strategic thinking and success of Kenyan banks
Read how to develop strategic thinking competencies