“You need to think more strategically; you need to be more strategic!” It’s one of the most common, but least helpful, pieces of feedback professionals receive. It sounds smart, it sounds wise, it ...

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For most of us, reinvention—of our careers and ourselves—is an extremely tall order. As London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra notes, you might know what you don’t want to do any more but be ...

Nonprofit leaders, midlevel managers, and frontline staff sometimes view strategic planning as one more task heaped onto near-impossible workloads. After all, developing a strategic plan — by ...

Instead, middle and senior managers are trained to hit key performance indicators, optimize efficiency, and execute directives from above. They’re expected to “own” their results but rarely given the ...

On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis explores how history’s greatest leaders balanced vision, resources, and morality. Using examples from Alexander the Great to Lincoln and Churchill, Gaddis shows ...

A Reddit member writes: I’m leading a small outreach and engagement team at a nonprofit, and I could really use advice. Our structure is simple: a few people handling writing, content creation, and ...

Today, critical thinking is an essential skill that empowers us to analyze information, make wise choices, and solve complex problems. Interestingly, some online games are designed to help develop ...