Trying to catch up from the point when work swamped me last week.<\/p>\n
My longtime amigo Dave Schuler<\/strong> at The Glittering Ey<\/strong>e voiced a disagreement with my post\u00a0Ruminating on Strategic Thinking II. : Social Conditions<\/a>\u00a0which he set forth there, as well as in the comments section. Here’s Dave:<\/p>\n Knowing How or Needing the Chance?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My blog friend\u00a0Mark Safranski\u2019s recent musings<\/a>\u00a0on the nature and sources of strategic thinking brought to mind an old politically incorrect joke whose punchline is \u201cKnow how; need chance.\u201d He opens the post with a substantial list of strategic thinkers and then tries to find commonalities among them. I found his list of commonalities uncompelling. I don\u2019t think these commonalities illuminate what strategic thinking is comprised of but rather what circumstances provide the greatest opportunity for strategic thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n For all we know the greatest strategic thinker of all time is sticking components onto a circuit board in Chengdu. We\u2019ll never have the opportunity to see the results of her strategic thinking because she\u2019s just struggling to make money to send to her parents back on the farm.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n What “strategic thinking is composed of” – that is to say, the cognitive level behaviors – I speculated upon in part I –\u00a0Ruminating on Strategic Thinking<\/a>. I do not expect that I was successful in being comprehensive there, but I think that post is much closer to what Dave was alluding to above.<\/p>\n