Leaders Are Clear Thinkers

Optimizing Strategy Stage 3: Creative Strategic Thinking

By Dr. Timothy Waema & Ron Price • 17 min

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book, "Optimizing Strategy for Results," Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD.

149. Optimizing Strategy Stage 3: Creative Strategic Thinking

• 17 min

Stage 3 of "Optimizing Strategy" ushers us into a new phase, Creating Strategic Options. Leaders can make great decisions by creating a flourishing list of options that define possible directions for the future.

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Planning for the Year: An Exercise in Futuristic Thinking

Our amazing coaches have compiled a thoughtful guide to help you any time you're looking to self-examine and practice Futuristic Thinking. 

148. Optimizing Strategy Stage 2: Building Strategic Intelligence

• 18 min

Host Dale Dixon interviews the authors of "Optimizing Strategy for Results" on their unique approach to building Strategic Intelligence into strategy.

Optimizing Strategy Stage 2: Building Strategic Intelligence

By Ron Price & Dr. Timothy Waema • 18 min

Strategic Intelligence measures how well leaders within a company know themselves, their customers, and the environment they operate within.

How to Teach Your Organization to Respond Quickly to Opportunity

By Dr. Evans Baiya • 4 min read

It is imperative that every business leader understands how to identify opportunities and can train their team members to do the same.

Planning and Organizing

By Dr. Francis Eberle • 2 min

Dr. Francis Eberle shares some tips on how you can review your own planning and organizing skills in both your personal and professional life and how to improve these skills to become more accountable.

Optimizing Strategy Stage 1: Establishing the Foundations of Strategy

By Ron Price & Dr. Timothy Waema • 22 min

Building a company that will exist for the next 100 years depends heavily on the foundational elements of strategy: purpose, vision, and core values.

147. Optimizing Strategy Stage 1: Establishing the Foundations of Strategy

• 22 min

As leaders, it’s important to build a lasting framework that serves as a compass to guide your company—especially in uncertainty.

Reflection: A Key to Success?

By Padraig Berry • 4 min

In this short video, Padraig Berry analyzes self-reinforcing closed loops—the idea that the results we get are a consequence of the way that we see the world. And if we want to break out of this loop and change our results, we have to reflect.

144. Critical Thinking Skills

• 25 min

Host Dale Dixon and Complete Leader Founder Ron Price break down the attributes of critical thinking skills.

Critical Thinking Skills

By Ron Price • 25 min

Leaders at every level can create impact by understanding the importance of critical thinking, learning the additional skills required to be a strong critical thinker, and how to build your critical thinking skills.