Read a lot. Explore new things. Talk to people outside your organization and outside your discipline, as well as the people who know your system best.3. Thinking in TimeDr. Liedtka suggests that strategic thinkers ask themselves this question: “After seeing the future we want to create, what do we need to keep from our past, what do we need to lose from that past and create in the present to get there?” When you think strategically, you are always connected from the past to the present to the future. You learn from the past and use that learning to make predictions. You look at the present to evaluate the gap between where you are now and where you want to go. While your attention is always on the future, you can only act in the present. This concept always makes me think of HG Wells The Time Machine.4. Intelligent Opportunism Remember the old exercise of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Well, SWOT thinking never ends for strategic thinkers. Strategic thinkers are able to spot and react to big new opportunities as they arise. They understand that the world is dynamic and are open to change to achieve their goals