{"id":1120,"date":"2014-06-04T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2014-06-04T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:25:09","slug":"how-to-become-a-strategic-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-strategic-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Become A Strategic Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Understand the organization&#8217;s strategic priorities and contribute to them.<br \/>\n2. Have a personal process to think strategically.<br \/>\n3. Lead, guide, and influence your team to be strategic thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas for Unlocking Strategic Leadership Potential:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Talk about strategic initiatives<br \/>\n&#8211; Identify possible strategies to tackle<br \/>\n&#8211; Share your strategic targets with the team<br \/>\n&#8211; Recognize when the team identifies a strategic opportunity and respond to it<br \/>\n&#8211; Enroll others in implementing the strategy<br \/>\n&#8211; Focus decisions and actions on what is most important for long-term success<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div  id=\"_ytid_70677\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FeP5U3TCxu4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;theme=light&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FeP5U3TCxu4\/hqdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Understand the organization&#8217;s strategic priorities and contribute to them. 2. Have a personal process to think strategically. 3. Lead, guide, and influence your team to be strategic thinkers. Ideas for Unlocking Strategic Leadership Potential: &#8211; Talk about strategic initiatives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/how-to-become-a-strategic-leader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}