Enterprise Thinking is the concept of rethinking the role and value of leadership within organizations. It represents a new slant on what leaders should be doing every day. It's not based on getting people and leaders to do more. Rather, it teaches them how to be more.
Ultimately, you are responsible for making the kinds of decisions that will affect your organization and your life both in the present and the future. Your decisions are rooted in your ability to think, which is not as simple as it seems. As Henry Ford once said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
A Leader's Toolkit
That's why it's important to have the Enterprise Thinking resources you need to make your best decisions from one day to the next. A new book, Paid to THINK just released by David and Lorrie Goldsmith, teaches leaders and their teams how to strategize, plan, transform through projects and dramatically enhance their global awareness while outmaneuvering competition.
Just as enterprise integration and enterprise architecture are used by IT professionals to technicalogically integrate all the tentacles of organizations for greater efficiencies and better outcomes, think of Enterprise Thinking as the leader's mental arsenal to accomplish the same.
Every day, a leader constantly pulls for all four categories in the toolkit as s/he searches for ways to lead others and improve the organization:
Learning: Acquiring new knowledge, enhancing global awareness, watching competition
Strategizing: Developing plans, creating new products/services, establishing alliances, leveraging technology
Performing: Leading the charge, empowering others, innovating everywhere, selling continuously
Forecasting: Forecasting the future
Source: Paid to THINK by David and Lorrie Goldsmith (Hardcover $21.72)
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