@@roronoazero814exactly, we can not confine the greatness and potential of the mind to these yard sticks, they are good indicators but do not tell the full story.
As a software engineer, I zoned out for a bit and thought I was watching a video about how to think about software. This is exactly how we develop programs!
This is a baseline explanation of project management. Its economics. Use your resources, build them around a concept then revise, then devise coherent and applicable language ( this is important if jargon is too technical you will fail to reach all tiers, explain it lije you are speaking to third graders and lose all modicum of project cogency. After this get details lined out and get particular people on board. Then push forward with more people and more models. This should be grade school systems and model management.
I'm really impressed by how this guy has articulated what I've always thought. I've seen leaders fail because they lacked at least one of these six core skills. My personal favorite is "cloud to ground" thinking-at least 95% of the leaders I've worked with lose focus (cannot focus or absorb detail) when their influence is needed to resolve conflicts or steer things strategically at the operational/ground level.
This reminds me of the Savielly Tartakower quote, “Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” *edit: mixed up chess players I thought it was Garry Kasparov
worked for him , doesnt mean it will work for everyone but no fun in tat though , we should stop digging into quotes, answers and start discovering things oursevles with our own lens and hard work , its fine if it takes a long ass time or even if we never arrive at the conclusion , or even if get to wrong conclusions but since it is from our own lens with no external influence or some one else's copy the result will open up something amazing a discovery not even savielly would have thought about .. (i mean this would work only for you but still yours is more powerful to you than others is for you)thats how i always thought i have been on an amazing journey so far well you can say this is mine and only worked for me ^ not necessarily this is how things should face reality if you look at your surroundings .. only we can know what is good for ourselves you may check out the quotes but everything should your sole descision and your sole discovery completely compatible with you
The chess master analogy really clicked for me - how they don't just see pieces, but see patterns, power dynamics, and opportunities. It makes strategic thinking feel more tangible and shows how it's really about developing a different way of seeing things rather than just being naturally gifted.
1 (pattern recognition) = maths/problem solving 2 ability to process a high amount of information about a thing, high RAM and a good memory (System analysis) 3 ability to shift perspective and to see the problem from different frames (Mental agility) 4 high amount of structured information/frame-work stored in your head about your field (Structed problem solving) 5 knowing your goals (visioning) 6 ability to manipulate people to get what you want not in that way but like convincing them (politically savvy)
Just completed the book i think you got 3/6 wrong. Although this video generalizes these disciplines what he discussed in the book is slightly different
I do like how this video is about the “smartest” people and not necessarily the “wisest” people because it explains so much how smart people can problem solve and lead to long term bad outcomes for the masses even with the given authority.
Talk about mckinsey with the phentanyl... 😂 At one point in my life I almost got into consulting and when I realized that people would take advice like that just because it came from the firm I was discouraged. People wanna do bad shit and they hire consultants to "allow them", they want to be told "yes, tou can fire 1000 people", "yes, you can sell addictive drugs and market them as non addictive". So you are very correct. Is it worth being a great problem solver if the solution you give doesn't consider different perspectives? Sometimes "non action" leads to better outcomes than "action", because many issues tend to resolve when people are given space...
@@xyz-y2s yes and no, I have been intelligent people with anxiety that are good problem solvers under stress, but for more "relaxed" issues they struggle with wanting a solution right now. That's why I agree with wise=/=intelligent
1. Pattern Recognition: Finding important things in a lot of information, like how chess experts see patterns on the board. 2. Systems Analysis: Understanding how different parts of a system work together, even if the model is a simple version of reality. 3. Mental Agility: Being able to quickly switch between thinking about the big picture and the small details. 4. Structured Problem-Solving: Using a step-by-step method to help teams solve big problems. 5. Visioning: Creating an exciting and realistic future plan for the organization to inspire people. 6. Politics: Skillfully managing relationships and communication to get support for your ideas.
1:47 Pattern Recognition: Identifying significant information amidst chaos, akin to how chess grandmasters perceive board patterns. 2:28 Systems Analysis: Understanding complex systems and their dynamics, acknowledging that models simplify reality but can still guide predictions. 3:26 Mental Agility: The ability to switch between high-level perspectives and detailed analysis, which is vital for strategic insight. 4:02 Structured Problem-Solving: Engaging teams in a systematic process to frame and resolve significant organizational challenges. 4:58 Visioning: Crafting an inspiring future vision for the organization while balancing ambition with achievability to motivate people. 5:44 Politics: Navigating organizational dynamics through strategic communication and sequencing to build support for initiatives.
This is very good. For those of us who are more simple in their vocabulary/thought processing, would you take a stab at simplifying those 6 summaries even further, please?
@@elsykay9699 1. Pattern Recognition: Finding important things in a lot of information, like how chess experts see patterns on the board. 2. Systems Analysis: Understanding how different parts of a system work together, even if the model is a simple version of reality. 3. Mental Agility: Being able to quickly switch between thinking about the big picture and the small details. 4. Structured Problem-Solving: Using a step-by-step method to help teams solve big problems. 5. Visioning: Creating an exciting and realistic future plan for the organization to inspire people. 6. Politics: Skillfully managing relationships and communication to get support for your ideas.
@@prod.celestial9750 Expose yourself to the challenges that lie ahead, there is always a problem to be solved. From small details to big problems. But generally, as you start to notice the small adjustments needed around you, you start to become more sensitive to finding problems and solving them.
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I believe there are only three fundementals to take from this video(Do take this with a grain of salt, this is my opinion). Pattern recognition and systems analysis, are one quality, having the experience and knowledge to be able to see through a problem and knowing what comes next. Mental agility, structured problem solving and visioning also stand in the same zone, of seeing the big and small picture, putting it into bite sized pieces, and showing your thought process, like in programming/software development(Like others mentioned)! Then Political savvy is the ability to talk to and positively motivate people to pursue action in your favor or in others' favor for the greater good of a project. 1.Pattern recognition 2.Mind-mapping ability 3.Ability to understand and influence people Let me know what you think! You very well may be able to explain it better than me.
My parents thought I was mentally challenged in middle school. I was tested and earned the highest score possible for intellect. Smart can sometimes make you seem odd.
In middle school I was one of the worst students in terms of not attending lessons, because I just couldn't stand it. Obviously I didn't study on my own and even had some short term jobs while I was supposed to be at school. Turned out I graduated with one of the highest scores on the official tests, as it was all logically solvable and I don't even have a particularly high IQ. Idk what I should think about the other guys, but it didn't help me to enjoy their companion any more lol
@@Bailiolhow did you ‘apply yourself’ exactly? and in what way you’re ’intellectually challenged’? i am really keen to know your story, if you don’t mind?
I feel like I am pretty good at the first 5, watching this I began to get frustrated about why I don't seem to be able to have the impact I think I should until the 6th skill. I have no idea of how to play politics strategically to communicate the big vision. I always share too much info and give people all the transparency because I think facts motivate them and they will be able to see how this will be a good course of action for the organisation, whereas actually most people have personal and political ambitions. At least I know where to start learning!
Gotta understand not everyone sees things from your point of view. They must first be studied so you can learn what motivates them and then craft a custom made version for each person, always
Intuition will definitely help an individual decision maker in a black box way, but when it comes to operating an organization, the “trust me” approach will only get you so far. There is also a real need to systematize and bake feedback/self-correcting mechanisms into the system (in a tangible, consistently explainable way)
Absolutely. Its a bunch of blah blah bullshit. It's the kind of thinking that creates the chaos of a dod eat dog culture in companies, nations and the world. That's precisely why we are so screwed as a human race and planet. By his own words, if the climate cannot be modeled then what about the system of 8 billion people, races, ethnicities, religions, products, services and markets, not to speak of the cheats, liars, crooks, criminals and so on.
I'm sensing a new wave of channels, websites / article aggregators that wanna capture the intellectual market and are posting stuff to capitalise on it later. Without knowing much about something and still continuing to consume such content is a waste of time.
One important fundamental concept I learned in high school (Canadian, not American) was “be sure you are answering the question”. We did not have true/false or multiple-guess exams. It was write your brains out for two hours 3X per year on an exam written by the head of the department who was not necessarily your instructor. US high school is too much like a big social club even those days. I would have gone to one if my father had not been stationed in Ottawa during the DEWLINE days. I still have the calluses on my thumb and second finger from all the writing.
A quirk of my country's school system is that we do SOOO many group presentations. I think I had five every month by my senior year. By then everyone had the same group in which we already knew everyone's strengths and weaknesses, but I spent many years of my k-12 being sorted into random groupings by the teachers who emphasized the necessity of getting along with people who were not your friends 😂 in 6th grade or so I had a colleague who threw up before a presentation and got a blank on the next. By graduation she could probably talk about everything from chemistry to world history in front of the entire class. She still didn't like it but she was definitely capable lol
You might not become a world class strategic thinker without some natural ability but you can still be better than the majority of people. Maybe you end up being in the top 1% where someone that has natural ability along with putting in the time to learn might be the top 0.1%.
Mind on process (improving a mind) instead of on expectation of specific result (obtainment of an imagined endowment) followed with acceptance of concomitant effects and something unexpectedly good will happen.
*I wasn't financial free until my 40’s and I’m still in my 40’s, bought my third house already, earn on a monthly through passive income, and got 4 out of 5 goals, just hope it encourages someone's that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! Investing in the financial market is a grand choice I made.*
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies.
People dismiss the importance of advisors until they are burned by their own emotions. I remember a couple of summers ago, following my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to assist my business stay alive, so I looked for qualified consultants and came across someone with the highest qualifications. He has helped me raise my reserve from $275k to $850k, despite inflation.
Investing with an expert is the best strategy for beginners and busy investors, as most failures and losses in investment usually happen when you invest without proper guidance. I'm speaking from experience.
Rather than say ‘Political Savviness’, I would call that ‘Leadership Culture’ This is amazing - it simply puts light to a lot of stuff right now. Definitely a book to find and read
This is why engineering and a career in engineering often leads to effective leadership, their education and work sharpens many of the necessary strategic thinking skills at a more demanding level than other disciplines. (certainly at least the first 4 skills)
As an anthropologist who has worked with many engineers, because they struggle to understand non-engineers (mental agility) and make all kinds of mistakes when dealing with people (Political Savvy), I'd have to strongly disagree. Yes, pattern recognition, systems analysis, and structured problem solving are definitely important skillsets in engineering, but the other three aren't always necessary. Specifically, Mental agility and Political Savvy are not skills that I've seen in working with a lot of engineers. Mental agility means looking at the whole picture and that includes the human components. There's a reason why there is a whole field of User Experience. Many engineers don't have the mental agility to see how their designs aren't necessarily accessible to non-engineer users. They often can't see the big picture of the implications of their work, and I would argue that the algorithmic bubble crisis we currently have is exactly because humanities and social science have been deprioritized from school curriculums since the 80s. In other words, when you focus only on those three skills, you get the Zuckerbergs of the world, who don't think about the social implications of their engineering (or don't care because they lack empathy).
But emotional intelligence is required even to survive at the bottom of the hierarchy or even in a society. Thus, for the subject of this video, EI should be assumed to be already in place!
The talk emphasizes that strategic thinking is not merely an innate ability but can also be developed through training and experience, similar to other important skills. Understanding and applying the six key principles of strategic thinking are crucial for success in leadership and organizational management. So, how can we balance developing strategic thinking skills with leveraging innate talents to achieve optimal effectiveness, especially in the face of increasingly complex challenges today?
Yep being able too articulate those thoughts is the challenge. Do you have a natural intuition for seeing problems coming in the future. I had a thought when us pulled out of afganistan that i hoped all the wepons left were fitted gps and a trigger lock. Then mossad fitted pagers and sold them to Hezbollah. Out the box thinking its a gift
The real power is to understand that you have something inside you and let that thing out, imagine two guys you now, you next 5 years if you choose right path.
I understood all 6 concepts. However, in my situation for a group project for a university task, some members were uninterested and unmotivated, causing work overload on other members. The real question is how would one address these cases where they're unmotivated, running late all the time, and not participating in discussion?
In my experience you need to be naturally curious and you need to have that mental space. If either of those requirements is missing, you will experience what you described. Great thinker, but swamped with work or you have a person who loves to do specific tasks, but nothing more. You mention a university group project where I feel some are too busy and it just wont work for the reason I described. They just are not thinkers or they are and are too busy In an organization it would be a bit different: You need to identify those candidates, free up their schedule so that their brain gets a bit bored (some research claim that 15-25% workload reduction is helpful) and then you have to wait for a while for the magic to happen. As in the change will not happen over night. Some may need weeks to readjust, others months while few might never be able to do that. But if you are looking for organic idea generation in your organization without it being forced upon them, then you need to create appropriate supportive environment.
I created a video course for personal growth support and it tríes to bring all these points within one established "game" support system. I still need part 3 and to make. It's interesting as I didn't put words on that before starting it but it's exactly what I've to bring and teach and add into that support thing. Thanks for the videos !
Being a divergent thinker, i feel like as soon as you expand, its hard to contract your information into meaningful conclusions. I would love to understand more about how you get from the cloud to the ground.
Sounds great. However my 40 year experience of CEOs is they send three emails one saying hi I’m your new CEO things is gonna change the second one the year later sacking about 25% of the workforce and the third email about a year after that saying I’m leaving the organisation for new opportunities. No need for all that strategic thinking nonsense . 🎉
So, you’re making a mess & then left it? No wonder the world is the mess right now…. I had a valuable advice from my Master degree friend @ university, that u need IQ as well as EQ (meaning: empathy, emotional intelligence, heart, as well as head (brain) etc) So, if u just left the mess, after sacking people….. incomprehensible!!!!
I'm thinking of putting some cash in stocks, I was at Salt Shack and I overheard some friends saying it's ripe enough, but Is this a good time to buy stocks? I’ve been sitting on over $545K equity from a home sale and I’m not sure where to go from here, is it a good time to buy into stocks or do I wait for another opportunity?
@FraizersNicholses A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember a couple of summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of the utmost qualifications. She helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $375k to $850k.
@@CardenasasZoellers How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financial future and am eager to participate. Who is the driving force behind your success?
@@AnthonysBrowns Ruth Ann Kalage is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. By looking her up online, you can quickly verify her level of experience. She is well knowledgeable about financial markets.
Lord please give me strength and good health Father. I suffer from lupus, and heart disease. I have two beautiful boys both are special needs. I’m overwhelmed because they require so much from me. Every month is a struggle to not end up on the streets. Lord help me provide for my children.🙏🏾💕
@@neiltristanyabutif you put effort into something/energy into something, you get an outcome, obviously. Newton’s third law. Prayer is just you vocalising an issue, reinforcing your wish to the surroundings/God/universe
Oh my God, your comment was in every faith based video I go to. Now it’s even here. Lady, if you’re real, stop going on youtube and get to work! God will not help you of you don’t help yourself! GEEZ YOU’VE BEEN WRITING THE SAME COMMENTS FOR A YEAR
I believe poverty and abuse is the main reason why people are intellectually below average. I grew up in an abusive home and I barely passed each school year. After I left home I became increasingly more competent and made better, more intelligent and beneficial life decisions. I realized that fear and people can hold you back from living a successful accomplished life more than anything else.
Yes, it can stunt your development and cause brain damage at a young age if you live through a toxic and abusive environment daily in your life, every hour of the day including in your sleep. It can program your life and then you will also be living in fear and flight mode during school, causing you brain fog, disorganization, low self-esteem, and daily exhaustion. You will also be more prone to bullying from others and from teachers. I agree with your comment. That was my life and it still is because I am in recovery mode trying to break from the cycle. I had potential but it was stunted by narcissistic and financial abuse from parents. I most likely also have ADHD and Autism but was never diagnosed because they refused to do so, knowing that it was causing problems at school and now at work as an adult. I was not extremely poor but parents were toxic and liked to live on the edge of not having money due to poor decisions and because it fed their supply for narcissistic abuse against each other and against me. Hence, my development was stunted and I suffered the consequences of having brain damage in my young adult years, 18-22, critical years that determine your success and outcomes in life. Wish you a speedy recovery.
ok by the end of one more year i want to see guys like this on the DL enter every single company organization at middle class income earners and upper middle class earner positions and show us how he got it with his strategies that he teaches at that school. Every student better be employed and in a good position if he really has the mental agility of bringing it beautifully together for us all to actually apply it like he says. Get your resumes , Ur cover letter and interview skills is a prep and mental agility and strategy thinking in and itself alone. even then i have seen a lot of instructions that beat around the bush when it comes to typing up the words for your resume . it should be a 45 mins or less non-instructional straight foward situataion all across the board with this leadeship stuff
Great video as ever. About COD Mobile, please can you tell me if you have to map the button even though you used the cod mode directly from the app or rather it's a "plug and play" kinda situation where you just have to activate that mode to be at ease?!
so nurses are pretty well in the sense of recognizing, prioritizing and mobilizing. imagine getting a jiggsaw puzzle paitnet, meaning everythings wrong at once. you respond to a call for a pt with multiple comorbidities and in respiratory distress, has low blood pressure and altered mental status. a million questions. but only a few things to do in terms of damage control first then prioritizing everything else. ill be incorporating what i can from this in my practice :)
From pattern recognition to political savvy, these disciplines don’t just make leaders smarter-they make them adaptable, insightful, and action-oriented.
Just curious, is the juice worth the squeeze? I was okay with this unwanted strategic thinking. Seems like a large amount of time is being used up in the " convincing part of your outline rather than in the "doing" part. Also, seems pretty manipulative of the folks you pay 6 figures plus to do what you want them to do. However, I do like the " Cloud to Ground" thinking. That I know works. 😊
So if you are Trudy what do you need to do in that situation where behind your back your people are being coerced in a direction that is not in line with your vision?
I hope I don't sound annoying, but In the past i often made similar jokes without realizing the negative impact of all this self-deprecation behavior. Even though they were meant as jokes, to some degree i was subconsciously internalizing them and that was influencing my self-perception. I know you're joking, I also assume you think to some level that you're actually dumb, and to some level it's probably true, but that's because you are allowing yourself to think you are. This is not meant to be "inspirational", it is literally true, backed by science. There is no gain in this attitude
there's a book called whispers of manifestation on borlest , and it talks about how using some secret tehniques you can attract almost everything in life it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal
I have a doubt about dreams. Why shouldn't it be a parallel universe connection of mine(5D)? Sometimes you see a new place and a new perspective which feel like you are living there on something in dreams. So it could be I am seeing my life in a parallel universe.
you do not have to be a CEO to have and/or apply these principles. These are valuable in any context where you are working with a group of people toward a common goal.
I mean, these are good but the really important ones were left out like be able to do but not be able to understand, but only think that you understand, is kinda evil ngl, but thats just me
No human and computer can duplicat variation of interaction as people complicated system, they model atmosphere & scenario but people more complex than computer progra.
1:47 → Pattern recognition
2:28 → System analysis
3:26 → Mental agility
4:02 → Structured problem-solving
4:58 → Visioning
5:44 → Political savvy
Thank you!
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there are several other things unknown to man , judging by just these 6 disciplines theoretical is not fair
@@roronoazero814exactly, we can not confine the greatness and potential of the mind to these yard sticks, they are good indicators but do not tell the full story.
As a software engineer, I zoned out for a bit and thought I was watching a video about how to think about software. This is exactly how we develop programs!
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Same with day Trading .. Basically applies in all skills..
hopefully you're better than climatologists at modeling. they predict f all
This is a baseline explanation of project management. Its economics. Use your resources, build them around a concept then revise, then devise coherent and applicable language ( this is important if jargon is too technical you will fail to reach all tiers, explain it lije you are speaking to third graders and lose all modicum of project cogency. After this get details lined out and get particular people on board. Then push forward with more people and more models. This should be grade school systems and model management.
I'm really impressed by how this guy has articulated what I've always thought. I've seen leaders fail because they lacked at least one of these six core skills. My personal favorite is "cloud to ground" thinking-at least 95% of the leaders I've worked with lose focus (cannot focus or absorb detail) when their influence is needed to resolve conflicts or steer things strategically at the operational/ground level.
Very good - well said
This reminds me of the Savielly Tartakower quote, “Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
*edit: mixed up chess players I thought it was Garry Kasparov
This quote is attributed to Savielly Tartakower
worked for him , doesnt mean it will work for everyone but no fun in tat though , we should stop digging into quotes, answers and start discovering things oursevles with our own lens and hard work , its fine if it takes a long ass time or even if we never arrive at the conclusion , or even if get to wrong conclusions but since it is from our own lens with no external influence or some one else's copy the result will open up something amazing a discovery not even savielly would have thought about .. (i mean this would work only for you but still yours is more powerful to you than others is for you)thats how i always thought i have been on an amazing journey so far
well you can say this is mine and only worked for me ^ not necessarily this is how things should face reality if you look at your surroundings ..
only we can know what is good for ourselves
you may check out the quotes but everything should your sole descision and your sole discovery completely compatible with you
Thk you for the quote. Greetings from Uganda, East Africa
@@anthonymwanje8398 welcome
Yes and you can't succeed with only one
The chess master analogy really clicked for me - how they don't just see pieces, but see patterns, power dynamics, and opportunities. It makes strategic thinking feel more tangible and shows how it's really about developing a different way of seeing things rather than just being naturally gifted.
1 (pattern recognition) = maths/problem solving
2 ability to process a high amount of information about a thing, high RAM and a good memory (System analysis)
3 ability to shift perspective and to see the problem from different frames (Mental agility)
4 high amount of structured information/frame-work stored in your head about your field (Structed problem solving)
5 knowing your goals (visioning)
6 ability to manipulate people to get what you want not in that way but like convincing them (politically savvy)
Exactly
1 and 4 are wrong
@@diamondhands4120 Elaborate your claim...
Just completed the book i think you got 3/6 wrong. Although this video generalizes these disciplines what he discussed in the book is slightly different
Already good at 1-5, working on 6 :)
As a Business Analyst we use these skills everyday. The variety is endless and we are constantly learning. I love it.
I do like how this video is about the “smartest” people and not necessarily the “wisest” people because it explains so much how smart people can problem solve and lead to long term bad outcomes for the masses even with the given authority.
Talk about mckinsey with the phentanyl... 😂
At one point in my life I almost got into consulting and when I realized that people would take advice like that just because it came from the firm I was discouraged. People wanna do bad shit and they hire consultants to "allow them", they want to be told "yes, tou can fire 1000 people", "yes, you can sell addictive drugs and market them as non addictive".
So you are very correct. Is it worth being a great problem solver if the solution you give doesn't consider different perspectives? Sometimes "non action" leads to better outcomes than "action", because many issues tend to resolve when people are given space...
@@patiakrelestbh, a good problem solver would realise when non-action is the best problem-solving strategy.
@@xyz-y2s yes and no, I have been intelligent people with anxiety that are good problem solvers under stress, but for more "relaxed" issues they struggle with wanting a solution right now. That's why I agree with wise=/=intelligent
I belive everyone is smart
Wisdom is not on the list, and neither is creativity, nor empathy.
1. Pattern Recognition: Finding important things in a lot of information, like how chess experts see patterns on the board.
2. Systems Analysis: Understanding how different parts of a system work together, even if the model is a simple version of reality.
3. Mental Agility: Being able to quickly switch between thinking about the big picture and the small details.
4. Structured Problem-Solving: Using a step-by-step method to help teams solve big problems.
5. Visioning: Creating an exciting and realistic future plan for the organization to inspire people.
6. Politics: Skillfully managing relationships and communication to get support for your ideas.
Thanks for the summary!♥️
Fr, thank you. Video felt like a bunch of word salad.
You are the real hero here
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Thanks. Great job.
Truth in all this is the aspect of reality of developing and cultivating an authentic organization.
1:47 Pattern Recognition: Identifying significant information amidst chaos, akin to how chess grandmasters perceive board patterns.
2:28 Systems Analysis: Understanding complex systems and their dynamics, acknowledging that models simplify reality but can still guide predictions.
3:26 Mental Agility: The ability to switch between high-level perspectives and detailed analysis, which is vital for strategic insight.
4:02 Structured Problem-Solving: Engaging teams in a systematic process to frame and resolve significant organizational challenges.
4:58 Visioning: Crafting an inspiring future vision for the organization while balancing ambition with achievability to motivate people.
5:44 Politics: Navigating organizational dynamics through strategic communication and sequencing to build support for initiatives.
Thank you
Thank you Bhai🙏
Thank you
This is very good. For those of us who are more simple in their vocabulary/thought processing, would you take a stab at simplifying those 6 summaries even further, please?
@@elsykay9699
1. Pattern Recognition: Finding important things in a lot of information, like how chess experts see patterns on the board.
2. Systems Analysis: Understanding how different parts of a system work together, even if the model is a simple version of reality.
3. Mental Agility: Being able to quickly switch between thinking about the big picture and the small details.
4. Structured Problem-Solving: Using a step-by-step method to help teams solve big problems.
5. Visioning: Creating an exciting and realistic future plan for the organization to inspire people.
6. Politics: Skillfully managing relationships and communication to get support for your ideas.
Improving your problem solving skills is the real power
And any good problem solver should have these six traits.
@@chasingdharmaify Yes
Any suggestions on how to do that?
@@prod.celestial9750 Expose yourself to the challenges that lie ahead, there is always a problem to be solved. From small details to big problems. But generally, as you start to notice the small adjustments needed around you, you start to become more sensitive to finding problems and solving them.
So true!
Was speaking about this last night and it was on my timeline this morning
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It's scary when that happens.
I believe there are only three fundementals to take from this video(Do take this with a grain of salt, this is my opinion).
Pattern recognition and systems analysis, are one quality, having the experience and knowledge to be able to see through a problem and knowing what comes next.
Mental agility, structured problem solving and visioning also stand in the same zone, of seeing the big and small picture, putting it into bite sized pieces, and showing your thought process, like in programming/software development(Like others mentioned)!
Then Political savvy is the ability to talk to and positively motivate people to pursue action in your favor or in others' favor for the greater good of a project.
1.Pattern recognition
2.Mind-mapping ability
3.Ability to understand and influence people
Let me know what you think!
You very well may be able to explain it better than me.
Thank you
This makes a good trainer a really good trainer. There is no easy way just a single goal and the way too convince them.
„Focus on the improvement” brilliant
Thanks!
My parents thought I was mentally challenged in middle school. I was tested and earned the highest score possible for intellect. Smart can sometimes make you seem odd.
That is so true!
In middle school I was one of the worst students in terms of not attending lessons, because I just couldn't stand it. Obviously I didn't study on my own and even had some short term jobs while I was supposed to be at school. Turned out I graduated with one of the highest scores on the official tests, as it was all logically solvable and I don't even have a particularly high IQ. Idk what I should think about the other guys, but it didn't help me to enjoy their companion any more lol
@@Bailiolhow did you ‘apply yourself’ exactly? and in what way you’re ’intellectually challenged’? i am really keen to know your story, if you don’t mind?
My parents didn't think I was mentally challenged in middle school. Turns out, I am very mentally challenged.
I feel like I am pretty good at the first 5, watching this I began to get frustrated about why I don't seem to be able to have the impact I think I should until the 6th skill. I have no idea of how to play politics strategically to communicate the big vision. I always share too much info and give people all the transparency because I think facts motivate them and they will be able to see how this will be a good course of action for the organisation, whereas actually most people have personal and political ambitions. At least I know where to start learning!
You've told us too much in your comment. Please apply your rule 🙏
Gotta understand not everyone sees things from your point of view. They must first be studied so you can learn what motivates them and then craft a custom made version for each person, always
A lot of these 6 traits are facets of “intuition” as defined by Carl Jung.
Came here to say the same thing.
Exactly!
are these facets intuition. feeling, thinking and sensation?
@@MrBenzcdi no, those other things you mentioned are facets of personality.
Intuition will definitely help an individual decision maker in a black box way, but when it comes to operating an organization, the “trust me” approach will only get you so far. There is also a real need to systematize and bake feedback/self-correcting mechanisms into the system (in a tangible, consistently explainable way)
6 disciplines of strategic thinking: 1:42
-Pattern recognition
-System analysis
-Mental agility
-Structured problem solving
-Visionary
-Politically Savvy
Keys:-
Pattern recognition
System analysis
Mental agility (cloud to ground thinking)
Structured problem solving
Visionary
Politically Savvy (Sequencing Strategy)
Thanks
Everytime I watch a Big Think video. Which I have been doing for more than 5 years. It feels like the host is saying a lot without telling me shit!
yeah!
Absolutely. Its a bunch of blah blah bullshit. It's the kind of thinking that creates the chaos of a dod eat dog culture in companies, nations and the world. That's precisely why we are so screwed as a human race and planet.
By his own words, if the climate cannot be modeled then what about the system of 8 billion people, races, ethnicities, religions, products, services and markets, not to speak of the cheats, liars, crooks, criminals and so on.
What does that mean? Am I dumb?
Sounds like someone needs to work on their cloud to ground thinking!
I'm sensing a new wave of channels, websites / article aggregators that wanna capture the intellectual market and are posting stuff to capitalise on it later. Without knowing much about something and still continuing to consume such content is a waste of time.
One important fundamental concept I learned in high school (Canadian, not American) was “be sure you are answering the question”. We did not have true/false or multiple-guess exams. It was write your brains out for two hours 3X per year on an exam written by the head of the department who was not necessarily your instructor. US high school is too much like a big social club even those days. I would have gone to one if my father had not been stationed in Ottawa during the DEWLINE days. I still have the calluses on my thumb and second finger from all the writing.
A quirk of my country's school system is that we do SOOO many group presentations. I think I had five every month by my senior year. By then everyone had the same group in which we already knew everyone's strengths and weaknesses, but I spent many years of my k-12 being sorted into random groupings by the teachers who emphasized the necessity of getting along with people who were not your friends 😂 in 6th grade or so I had a colleague who threw up before a presentation and got a blank on the next. By graduation she could probably talk about everything from chemistry to world history in front of the entire class. She still didn't like it but she was definitely capable lol
The smartest we can do for ourselves in this life is to surrender ourselves with winners
You can say that again... I thank God for my wife for linking up among elites
You can say that again.... All we need is the right circle in life
That's what I call the power of companies.
I thank my colleagues for introducing me to Julia Cordova, a nice and God fearing woman that changed my life for the good.
@@MathiasWilliams-t3eI came out of depression because of the company I meet
You might not become a world class strategic thinker without some natural ability but you can still be better than the majority of people. Maybe you end up being in the top 1% where someone that has natural ability along with putting in the time to learn might be the top 0.1%.
Brilliant...thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Interesting to become aware of things that you don't normally think about.
Mind on process (improving a mind) instead of on expectation of specific result (obtainment of an imagined endowment) followed with acceptance of concomitant effects and something unexpectedly good will happen.
This summary is helpful
*I wasn't financial free until my 40’s and I’m still in my 40’s, bought my third house already, earn on a monthly through passive income, and got 4 out of 5 goals, just hope it encourages someone's that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! Investing in the financial market is a grand choice I made.*
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a time to invest in Stocks, Forex and Digital currencies.
That's awesome!!! I know nothing about investment and I'm keen on getting started.
What are your strategies?
People dismiss the importance of advisors until they are burned by their own emotions.
I remember a couple of summers ago, following my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to assist my business stay alive, so I looked for qualified consultants and came across someone with the highest qualifications. He has helped me raise my reserve from $275k to $850k, despite inflation.
If you are using a really good broker or account manager, it's easier to earn from the market
Investing with an expert is the best strategy for beginners and busy investors, as most failures and losses in investment usually happen when you invest without proper guidance. I'm speaking from experience.
So articulate. Brilliant ideas. Thank you so much.
Rather than say ‘Political Savviness’, I would call that ‘Leadership Culture’
This is amazing - it simply puts light to a lot of stuff right now.
Definitely a book to find and read
This is why engineering and a career in engineering often leads to effective leadership, their education and work sharpens many of the necessary strategic thinking skills at a more demanding level than other disciplines. (certainly at least the first 4 skills)
This comment is why engineers work for me and I don't work for them.
As an anthropologist who has worked with many engineers, because they struggle to understand non-engineers (mental agility) and make all kinds of mistakes when dealing with people (Political Savvy), I'd have to strongly disagree. Yes, pattern recognition, systems analysis, and structured problem solving are definitely important skillsets in engineering, but the other three aren't always necessary. Specifically, Mental agility and Political Savvy are not skills that I've seen in working with a lot of engineers. Mental agility means looking at the whole picture and that includes the human components. There's a reason why there is a whole field of User Experience.
Many engineers don't have the mental agility to see how their designs aren't necessarily accessible to non-engineer users. They often can't see the big picture of the implications of their work, and I would argue that the algorithmic bubble crisis we currently have is exactly because humanities and social science have been deprioritized from school curriculums since the 80s. In other words, when you focus only on those three skills, you get the Zuckerbergs of the world, who don't think about the social implications of their engineering (or don't care because they lack empathy).
it’s a bit hard for me to get some of that so had to rewatch it
Wow - words of wisdom ❤ 👍🏾😌
These high level conversations always get me. I want to know, what is the final product? Otherwise this is mental masterbation.
Emotional Intelligence is equally important.
That's the political savviness.
But emotional intelligence is required even to survive at the bottom of the hierarchy or even in a society. Thus, for the subject of this video, EI should be assumed to be already in place!
EI is incredibly lacking most places, ive worked for millionaires who could have 10x their worth if they imporved on that
I complete agree. I am teaching about that right now.
It is part 6 but he doesn’t generalize, and in my opinion it should be part of It.
The talk emphasizes that strategic thinking is not merely an innate ability but can also be developed through training and experience, similar to other important skills. Understanding and applying the six key principles of strategic thinking are crucial for success in leadership and organizational management. So, how can we balance developing strategic thinking skills with leveraging innate talents to achieve optimal effectiveness, especially in the face of increasingly complex challenges today?
This video helped me understand the core ideas better!
Everything mentioned I have experienced first hand. Spot on!
Thank you. That's great to hear!
I’m dyslexic. I was born thinking out the box.
Yep being able too articulate those thoughts is the challenge. Do you have a natural intuition for seeing problems coming in the future.
I had a thought when us pulled out of afganistan that i hoped all the wepons left were fitted gps and a trigger lock. Then mossad fitted pagers and sold them to Hezbollah. Out the box thinking its a gift
@@Jay-u1c5f 💯 Ability to articulate those thoughts is truly the challenge.
Well done. Great framework. Thank you.
THE most important human trait to develop: Willpower.
The real power is to understand that you have something inside you and let that thing out, imagine two guys you now, you next 5 years if you choose right path.
Great when you figure out how to string a sentence in English.
I understood all 6 concepts. However, in my situation for a group project for a university task, some members were uninterested and unmotivated, causing work overload on other members. The real question is how would one address these cases where they're unmotivated, running late all the time, and not participating in discussion?
In my experience you need to be naturally curious and you need to have that mental space. If either of those requirements is missing, you will experience what you described. Great thinker, but swamped with work or you have a person who loves to do specific tasks, but nothing more. You mention a university group project where I feel some are too busy and it just wont work for the reason I described. They just are not thinkers or they are and are too busy
In an organization it would be a bit different:
You need to identify those candidates, free up their schedule so that their brain gets a bit bored (some research claim that 15-25% workload reduction is helpful) and then you have to wait for a while for the magic to happen. As in the change will not happen over night. Some may need weeks to readjust, others months while few might never be able to do that. But if you are looking for organic idea generation in your organization without it being forced upon them, then you need to create appropriate supportive environment.
I guess you can’t fire a student.😒
Learn lots of things about startegic thinking ❤
❤ I would love to have the opportunity to visit you in Switzerland someday. Thank you for sharing your experience and wonderful work with the world.❤
this guys plays and understands the game
Absolutely brilliant
Thank you. 🙏
I created a video course for personal growth support and it tríes to bring all these points within one established "game" support system. I still need part 3 and to make. It's interesting as I didn't put words on that before starting it but it's exactly what I've to bring and teach and add into that support thing. Thanks for the videos !
Being a divergent thinker, i feel like as soon as you expand, its hard to contract your information into meaningful conclusions. I would love to understand more about how you get from the cloud to the ground.
Sounds great. However my 40 year experience of CEOs is they send three emails one saying hi I’m your new CEO things is gonna change the second one the year later sacking about 25% of the workforce and the third email about a year after that saying I’m leaving the organisation for new opportunities.
No need for all that strategic thinking nonsense . 🎉
So accurate 😂😂😂😂
So, you’re making a mess & then left it? No wonder the world is the mess right now….
I had a valuable advice from my Master degree friend @ university, that u need IQ as well as EQ (meaning: empathy, emotional intelligence, heart, as well as head (brain) etc)
So, if u just left the mess, after sacking people….. incomprehensible!!!!
Very informative! Thank you ☺️
I'm thinking of putting some cash in stocks, I was at Salt Shack and I overheard some friends saying it's ripe enough, but Is this a good time to buy stocks? I’ve been sitting on over $545K equity from a home sale and I’m not sure where to go from here, is it a good time to buy into stocks or do I wait for another opportunity?
@FraizersNicholses A lot of folks downplay the role of advisors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember a couple of summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of the utmost qualifications. She helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $375k to $850k.
@@CardenasasZoellers How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financial future and am eager to participate. Who is the driving force behind your success?
@@AnthonysBrowns Ruth Ann Kalage is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. By looking her up online, you can quickly verify her level of experience. She is well knowledgeable about financial markets.
@@CardenasasZoellers Thanks for this. Found her and looked through her credentials before contacting her. Once again many thanks.
Invest in emerging markets
“Don’t worry about the endowment, worry about the improvement”
Now I just want to take this guy's class for a semester.
Thank you!
Very interesting statement of strategy framework.
Where can I learn more about this?
Great video!
judgmentcallpodcast covers this. "Smartest mastered six core skills"
Or, simply study the definition of leadership .. guiding intent w integrity .. and all the styles that spring from it.
Lord please give me strength and good health Father. I suffer from lupus, and heart disease. I have two beautiful boys both are special needs. I’m overwhelmed because they require so much from me. Every month is a struggle to not end up on the streets. Lord help me provide for my children.🙏🏾💕
Praying for you.
prayer doesn't work
@@neiltristanyabutif you put effort into something/energy into something, you get an outcome, obviously. Newton’s third law. Prayer is just you vocalising an issue, reinforcing your wish to the surroundings/God/universe
Oh my God, your comment was in every faith based video I go to. Now it’s even here. Lady, if you’re real, stop going on youtube and get to work! God will not help you of you don’t help yourself! GEEZ
YOU’VE BEEN WRITING THE SAME COMMENTS FOR A YEAR
@@Ilovecats93281 thanks for proving my point
Great video
I believe poverty and abuse is the main reason why people are intellectually below average.
I grew up in an abusive home and I barely passed each school year.
After I left home I became increasingly more competent and made better, more intelligent and beneficial life decisions.
I realized that fear and people can hold you back from living a successful accomplished life more than anything else.
Yes, it can stunt your development and cause brain damage at a young age if you live through a toxic and abusive environment daily in your life, every hour of the day including in your sleep. It can program your life and then you will also be living in fear and flight mode during school, causing you brain fog, disorganization, low self-esteem, and daily exhaustion. You will also be more prone to bullying from others and from teachers. I agree with your comment. That was my life and it still is because I am in recovery mode trying to break from the cycle. I had potential but it was stunted by narcissistic and financial abuse from parents. I most likely also have ADHD and Autism but was never diagnosed because they refused to do so, knowing that it was causing problems at school and now at work as an adult. I was not extremely poor but parents were toxic and liked to live on the edge of not having money due to poor decisions and because it fed their supply for narcissistic abuse against each other and against me. Hence, my development was stunted and I suffered the consequences of having brain damage in my young adult years, 18-22, critical years that determine your success and outcomes in life. Wish you a speedy recovery.
Born or made? (like "A or B"): He answers "yes". That's now a great start to talk about smartness (no hate, just using logic)
ok by the end of one more year i want to see guys like this on the DL enter every single company organization at middle class income earners and upper middle class earner positions and show us how he got it with his strategies that he teaches at that school. Every student better be employed and in a good position if he really has the mental agility of bringing it beautifully together for us all to actually apply it like he says. Get your resumes , Ur cover letter and interview skills is a prep and mental agility and strategy thinking in and itself alone. even then i have seen a lot of instructions that beat around the bush when it comes to typing up the words for your resume . it should be a 45 mins or less non-instructional straight foward situataion all across the board with this leadeship stuff
Great video as ever.
About COD Mobile, please can you tell me if you have to map the button even though you used the cod mode directly from the app or rather it's a "plug and play" kinda situation where you just have to activate that mode to be at ease?!
so nurses are pretty well in the sense of recognizing, prioritizing and mobilizing. imagine getting a jiggsaw puzzle paitnet, meaning everythings wrong at once. you respond to a call for a pt with multiple comorbidities and in respiratory distress, has low blood pressure and altered mental status. a million questions. but only a few things to do in terms of damage control first then prioritizing everything else. ill be incorporating what i can from this in my practice :)
This is how my mind works, i am pretty successful in life and do not know how i achieved it. I guess there is still a nature that attributes to it.
Figure out how you achieved it and imagine what else you can accomplish.
Excellent video! Thank you so much for sharing this. 🙌✨
Good for them.
Bloggers have came a long way
From pattern recognition to political savvy, these disciplines don’t just make leaders smarter-they make them adaptable, insightful, and action-oriented.
How good is his book, The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking, in explaining all this?
its great and a must read
ppl:Are thinkers born or made?
bro: yess!!!
How do you define improvement, caring more about yourself n less about others. Lets all do that n see what happens.
Redrump.
Maybe you should give a "strategic thinking" seminar to the elites at health insurance companies.
Just curious, is the juice worth the squeeze? I was okay with this unwanted strategic thinking. Seems like a large amount of time is being used up in the " convincing part of your outline rather than in the "doing" part. Also, seems pretty manipulative of the folks you pay 6 figures plus to do what you want them to do. However, I do like the " Cloud to Ground" thinking. That I know works. 😊
I didn't know they made a video about me!
Omg. I'm very honored. I'm gonna go cry now
@which microphone they use to record this good and invisible quality sound ?
So if you are Trudy what do you need to do in that situation where behind your back your people are being coerced in a direction that is not in line with your vision?
damn insightful
Great ❤❤❤
Is Bigthink on podcast?
what are those blip blips sounds used as a background song? Does anyone know the name?
i was born dumb, didnt learn a thing, and forgot half of it...
I hope I don't sound annoying, but In the past i often made similar jokes without realizing the negative impact of all this self-deprecation behavior.
Even though they were meant as jokes, to some degree i was subconsciously internalizing them and that was influencing my self-perception. I know you're joking, I also assume you think to some level that you're actually dumb, and to some level it's probably true, but that's because you are allowing yourself to think you are. This is not meant to be "inspirational", it is literally true, backed by science. There is no gain in this attitude
I spank my monkey twice a day
😂😂😂
keep saying it and you'll remain dumb of course it also goes the other way 'positive affirmation'
😂@@sadmanahmed8405
The fact that nobody talks about the forbidden book The Mystic Labyrinth on Vexoner speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance
there's a book called whispers of manifestation on borlest , and it talks about how using some secret tehniques you can attract almost everything in life it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal
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I have a doubt about dreams.
Why shouldn't it be a parallel universe connection of mine(5D)? Sometimes you see a new place and a new perspective which feel like you are living there on something in dreams. So it could be I am seeing my life in a parallel universe.
The title of this video shouldn't be about the smartest people but about the smartest or most efficient CEOs or leaders.
you do not have to be a CEO to have and/or apply these principles. These are valuable in any context where you are working with a group of people toward a common goal.
I mean, these are good but the really important ones were left out like be able to do but not be able to understand, but only think that you understand, is kinda evil ngl, but thats just me
I'm good at 4 out of 6, the last 2 are the hardest.
it's kinda crazy how nobody's talking about the forbidden ebook called Mareska Manipulation on Vexoner
It's a waste of money - total crap
Great strategic thinkers born or made. Endownment focus on improvement. 6 decission of strayegic thinking. Navigate xomplexity, ffeature and dynamic
No human and computer can duplicat variation of interaction as people complicated system, they model atmosphere & scenario but people more complex than computer progra.
Pattern recognition
System analysis
mental agility
Structured problem-solving
Visioning
Political savy
Sc big think the smart
Pattern recognition
System analysis
mental agility
Structured problem-solving
Visioning
Political savy
1. Sequencing strategy method: carefully in process, mobileze potential requisition. Move people step by step
So dang early because I'm here to LEARN something
I gotta improve at political savviness because that was always the final hurdle
@rebshannonling Animal Farm lays out all the principles