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Dr. Stanley K. Ridgley - Strategic Thinking Skills

Strategic thinking is a powerful and invaluable skill, one that leads to greater chances of success in whatever professional and personal projects you’re involved in. It involves setting goals, developing long-range plans, anticipating the unexpected, analyzing your environment, and even cooperating with your competitors.

The only catch: Strategic thinking doesn’t come naturally. Because most of us are static thinkers who tend to make decisions only for today, strategic thinking skills have to be learned, cultivated, practiced, and applied.

Mastering the art and craft of strategic thinking can help you:

plan more effectively with an eye for avoiding unpleasant surprises;
impose a stronger sense of order on chaotic, disorderly projects and scenarios;
make savvier decisions and outsmart your competitors with greater confidence and ease; and
increase your productivity and satisfaction at work and at home.

And while the subject owes much to ideas and techniques developed in military situations, its applications go far beyond. With Strategic Thinking Skills, you’ll get a simple and comprehensive guide to the skills, tactics, techniques, tools, case studies, and lessons behind this all-important process. Business consultant, former military intelligence officer, and award-winning Professor Stanley K. Ridgley of Drexel University has crafted these 24 lectures as an accessible way to engage with thinking that will help you think—and act—more strategically in business and in your own life, whether you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you’re preparing to embark on a new career path.

Explore the Strategic Thinker’s Tool Box

Strategic thinking is a way of looking at the world with engagement and purpose in mind, and with a more solid understanding of the complex systems and environments of which you’re a part. But what makes for successful strategic thinking?

“Successful strategy,” Professor Ridgley notes at the start of these lectures, “is dynamic, adaptive, and opportunistic. It depends upon the swift, bold, and crisp execution of tactics.”