How effectively do your actual time investments match up with your priorities?
The 3A Strategic Framework of Acumen, Allocation, and Action can be an effective mental model to help you become a truly strategic leader. It requires the discipline to prioritize learning, harness your team’s best thinking, and set a course to continually overcome challenges in the pursuit of excellence. Being a senior leader should not be dictated by years on the job, but by the expertise and value a person brings. It’s an honor to lead people, so approach it as such. Do it strategically with a hunger for new insights and you’ll make the most of the opportunity. Do it tactically with complacency and you won’t do it for long.
Rich Horwath is founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he is a strategy facilitator and coach to executive leadership teams. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books on strategic thinking, including his most recent work, STRATEGIC: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence which was selected by Inc. Magazine as a top 4 “must-read book for 2024.”
Rich has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX TV to provide expert commentary on business strategy and his work has been published in Fast Company, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and professor of strategy at the graduate level. Rich has helped more than a quarter million leaders develop their strategic thinking and planning capabilities over the past two decades in pursuit of his vision to teach the world to be strategic. For additional information, visit StrategySkills.com
