Everything about Strategic thinking

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Strategic thinkingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Re-Thinking Data Strategy and Integration for Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Opportunities, and ChallengesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: SprintThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Thinking about U : Theorizing and testing U ‐ and inverted U ‐shaped relationships in strategy researchCited 2,430 times
5. Go sideways: StrategyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Strategic planningA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Thinking about U : Theorizing and testing U ‐ and inverted U ‐shaped relationships in strategy research

  Richard F. J. Haans, Constant Pieters, Zi‐Lin He · 2015 · Strategic Management Journal · 2,430 citations

• Process thinking in strategic organization

  Ann Langley · 2007 · Strategic Organization · 353 citations

• Thinking about Strategic Culture

  Alastair Iain Johnston · 1995 · International Security · 335 citations

• Strategic thinking or strategic planning?

  Loizos Heracleous · 1998 · Long Range Planning · 154 citations

• Dynamic Strategic Thinking

  P.R. Dickson, P.W. Farris, W.J.M.I. Verbeke · 2001 · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · 65 citations

• Strategic thinking with computers

  Colin Eden · 1990 · Long Range Planning · 55 citations

• Stretching strategic thinking

  Stan Abraham · 2005 · Strategy & Leadership · 43 citations

• Strategic thinking and stress

  DIETRICH DÖRNER, ERDMUT PFEIFER · 1993 · Ergonomics · 34 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Re-Thinking Data Strategy and Integration for Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges

  Abdulaziz Aldoseri, Khalifa N. Al-Khalifa, Abdel Magid Hamouda · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 593 citations

• Metacognitive Strategies and Development of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

  Silvia F. Rivas, Carlos Saiz, Carlos Ossa · 2022 · Frontiers in Psychology · 211 citations

• Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing

  Daniel L. Dinsmore, Luke K. Fryer · 2023 · Educational Psychology Review · 23 citations

• The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Management

  Martin Kunc · 2024 · Systems · 21 citations

• Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking

  David Gill, Victoria Prowse · 2022 · The Economic Journal · 16 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• SprintJake Knapp, John Zeratsky · 2001
• ScenariosKees van der Heijden · 1996
• The decision bookMikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler · 2011
• Critical Thinking for Strategic IntelligenceKatherine H. Pherson, Randolph H. Pherson · 2012
• Crafting strategyLoizos Heracleous · 2011
• Unsafe ThinkingJonah Sachs · 2018
• Outthink the competitionKaihan Krippendorff · 2011
• 📕Success Is WithinPayal Nanjiani · 2019

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