{"id":852,"date":"2017-01-19T08:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:03:37","slug":"leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Strategic Leader Is About Asking the Right Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you asked the world\u2019s most successful business leaders what it means to \u201cbe strategic,\u201d how many different answers do you think you\u2019d get? Consider this number: 115,800,000. It\u2019s the number of unique links returned when I\u00a0searched online for \u201cstrategic leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a good reason for all of those links:\u00a0Strategy is complex. Thought leaders from all over the world have created sophisticated frameworks designed to help leaders grapple with their own strategies at an abstract level. But the\u00a0reality is that strategy succeeds or fails based on how well leaders at every level of an organization integrate strategic thinking into day-to-day operations. This is less about complexity and more about practical focus.<\/p>\n

How can you personally be more strategic as a leader? Consider asking yourself and your team the five questions below to drive clarity, alignment, and strategic insight. The\u00a0questions build on one another, leading to a well-aligned, strategic perspective. If you make these five questions part of your ongoing dialog, you will inevitably become more strategic and more successful as a team.<\/p>\n

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1. What are we doing today?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Leaders are often surprised at just how much they don\u2019t know about what team members are working on. Here\u2019s why: Over time, organizations add more and more to the plates of various teams and employees. While leaders and team members talk at length about new initiatives and assignments, they focus less on legacy work that\u2019s still being done. At some point leaders lose sight\u00a0of\u00a0just how much time people are investing in legacy priorities. Asking this question almost always brings to light significant work that managers aren\u2019t aware is being done or …<\/p>\n

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If you asked the world\u2019s most successful business leaders what it means to \u201cbe strategic,\u201d how many different answers do you think you\u2019d get? Consider this number: 115,800,000. It\u2019s the number of unique links returned when I\u00a0searched online for \u201cstrategic leadership.\u201d There\u2019s a good reason for all of those links:\u00a0Strategy is complex. Thought leaders from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[60,27,81,107,17,126,146],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-staging","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-business-review","tag-hbr","tag-is-adviser","tag-operating-partner","tag-operating-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isadviser.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}