The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
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
To act in a dynamically changing world, we need some way of limiting the scope of our reasoning and perception, some way of zeroing in on what is relevant without having to consider all that isn’t. This turns out to be a deep and difficult problem. The cognitive scientist John Vervaeke has gone so far as to argue that this capacity for “relevance r... See more
Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
roughly a third come looking for techniques—skills, tactics, a tool kit. They are interested in what Heifetz calls the instruments” of leadership. They hope to find the right path, discover “how to package the skills I have,” or “a recipe that lets you know what you’re doing wrong.” They hope to learn how to guide and convince according to some yet
... See moreSharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
The first part is judgment about which issues are truly important and which are secondary. The second part is judgment about the difficulties of dealing with these issues. And the third part is the ability to focus, to avoid spreading resources too thinly, not trying to do everything at once. The combination of these three parts lead to a focus on
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