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• Can juggle a lot of mental balls.
• Isn’t afraid to engage in wild speculation about the future.

• Can bring several unrelated streams of information together to form a compelling vision.
• Good at meaning making.
• Produces distinctive and winning strategies.

Some possible causes
• Doesn’t like complexity.
• Doesn’t think the future is knowable.
• Inexperienced.

• Lack of perspective.
• Low-variety background.
• Low risk taker; doesn’t like uncertainty.
• New to the area.

• Too busy with today’s tasks.
• Too narrow.
• Very tactical.

Other causes
Being less skilled at, or overusing, some competencies may also be the cause of an issue with Non-
strategic.

Being less skilled at:

12. Decision quality
18. Global perspective
33. Strategic mindset

37. Drives vision and purpose

Overusing:

2. Action oriented
20. Interpersonal savvy

Tips to overcome being Non-strategic
1. Problems with presentation? Use strategic language. In some rare cases, we have found people
who could think strategically but were not identified as such because they either didn’t know, rejected,
or chose not to use what they considered the latest strategic buzzwords. Strategy is an emerging and
ever-changing field. At any time, there are gurus (at present probably Michael Porter, Ram Charan,
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