Cultivating strategic thinking in organizational leaders by designing supportive work environment!

Abstract

Management leader's capacity to think strategically is a key to exceedingly higher performance level. Broad work knowledge combined with extensive work experience is a right recipe to develop strategic thinking ability. Organization's internal environment coupled with allied organizational elements can either support or restrict the higher cognitive process of the individual which is responsible for smart thinking. Leaders, considered as the builders and reformers of the organization's internal environment, possess the ability to enhance and establish stronger connection between organizational processes and the team workerś ability of learning to think strategically. The collection of activities including; specialized training, skill enhancement and learning initiatives can provide leaders with the skills to enhance the strategic thinking of the work teams they lead.