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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

” This mindset triggered knee-jerk reactions to overinvolve herself in delegated work and to communicate harshly by bottom-lining every email, one-on-one conversation, and team discussion. The busier he got, the more he slipped into tactical mode, in order to get things checked off his to-do list as quickly as possible.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Focus on the Self The final three principles are aimed at the potential strategic leaders themselves — these tactics can help them prepare for their personal evolution. Find time to reflect Strategic leaders are skilled in what organizational theorists Chris Argyris and Donald Schön called “double-loop learning.”